Give Quote by Jean Piaget

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

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

— Stephen Dunn

In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations inherent in…

— David Hilbert

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes…

— Piet Mondrian

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers

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

— Claes Oldenburg

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

— Paul Cezanne

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore

“In learning, we draw an abstraction from concrete objects and events. In creating, we make our own concrete objects and events out of the…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Jerry Saltz

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one…

— John Locke

I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it

— Alexander Stepanov