Abstraction Quote by Eric Fischl Download Open image “Abstraction is an esoteric language.” — Eric Fischl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstraction Esoteric Inspirational Language Painting
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it — Alexander Stepanov Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art. — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant. — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes… — William James Copy Share Image
