Abstract Quote by Edith Stein

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

— Stephen Dunn

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

— Juan Gris

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

— Ben Shahn

“The abstract and the concrete side of operations are opposites, but you can't have one without the other, if, that is, you want get…

— David Keirsey

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

— Claes Oldenburg

Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made…

— Herbert Marcuse

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

The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.

— Ad Reinhardt

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic,…

— Marc Chagall

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

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

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

— Morris Kline