Abstraction Quote by Jerry Saltz

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

Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned…

— Sigfried Giedion

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

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

— 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

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

— Stephen Dunn

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond…

— Arshile Gorky

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

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

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

— Henry Moore

Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a…

— Brice Marden

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

— Derek R. Audette