Abstract Quote by John Green

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

— Claes Oldenburg

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

— Stephen Dunn

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

— Ad Reinhardt

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

— Ben Shahn

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

— Israel Gelfand

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

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are…

— John Green

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

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

I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the…

— Giorgio Morandi

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

— Ellsworth Kelly

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a…

— Alfred North Whitehead