Abstract Quote by Marc Bloch

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a…

— Joseph Joubert

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

— William James

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

— Thom Mayne

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience,…

— Anonymous

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

— Giorgio Morandi

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

— Marshall Ganz

Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.”

— Robert C. Martin

“words, for our brains, reality equals relevance.”

— David DiSalvo

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

— Eric Cantona

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

— Bede Griffiths