Abstraction Quote by Julie Mehretu Download Open image “I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.” — Julie Mehretu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstraction Elements
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it — Alexander Stepanov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.” — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is. — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it. — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and make sense… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time… — Julie Mehretu 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
