Abstraction Quote by Derek R. Audette

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

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

— Stephen Dunn

I'm not an abstractionist completely.

— Cy Twombly

“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

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

— Jerry Saltz

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

— Robert Genn

“Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“An abstraction is not a module, or an interface, class, or method; it is a structure, pure and simple-an idea reduced to its essential…

— Daniel Jackson

When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel