Abstraction Quote by Joe Bradley Download Open image “I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.” — Joe Bradley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstraction Easy Fall Pastiche Thinking
I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it — Alexander Stepanov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
When I was younger I was very opinionated about art. And then, I realized that I kind of recognized this pattern where the things… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I think what's happened in art criticism, or art thinking, in last 30 or 40 years is a confusion between the "what" - the… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do something outside… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
The internet might be a convenience, but it hasn't yet, for me, been a fundamental reordering. These things are supposed to be time-savers, so… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
A fake friend is your best friend at the perfect time so keep your eyes wide and never lend a dime - Joe Bradley — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I give myself different roles. I think in different ways on different days. Sometimes I think of it as cooking - different flavors and… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes… — William James Copy Share Image
