Abstraction Quote by Ken Danby Download Open image “Abstraction and realism work best together.” — Ken Danby ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstraction Realism Together
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 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
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. — Constantin Brancusi 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
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour. — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others. — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done. — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole. — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none. — Ken Danby 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
