Abstraction Quote by Keith Devlin

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

— Anonymous

In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations inherent in…

— David Hilbert

Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that…

— Morris Kline

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

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“It may be that mathematics is not generally recognized as one of the arts precisely because so much pyramidal training and practice is required…

— David Foster Wallace

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report…

— Andreas Gursky

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

— Richard Hamming

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

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.

— Ian Stewart

It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by…

— Sigfried Giedion

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

— Kerry James Marshall