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

— Jerry Saltz

I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They think in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

— Gustave Flaubert

“To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions.”

— Angela Harris

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

— Stephen Dunn

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

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

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

— Derek R. Audette

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

— Jerry Saltz

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm constantly making…

— Brice Marden