Beauty Quote by Eric Temple Bell

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

— Ben Shahn

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

— Claes Oldenburg

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

— Timothy Gowers

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

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

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Ad Reinhardt

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a…

— Joseph Joubert

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

— Stephen Dunn

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

— Wassily Kandinsky

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

— Bertrand Russell

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in…

— Edith Stein