Quote by Jerril Thomas Abraham

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

— Ben Shahn

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 itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

— Eric Maisel

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

— Ad Reinhardt

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

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

— Stephen Dunn

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

— Claes Oldenburg

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

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

— Joaquin Phoenix

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

— Morris Kline

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

To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry,…

— D. H. Lawrence