Abstract Quote by Dan Meyer

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

— Stephen Dunn

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

— Ben Shahn

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the…

— Tony Hoare

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

— Claes Oldenburg

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

— Robert Genn

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz

“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.”

— Robert C. Martin

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a…

— Tom G. Palmer