Abstraction Quote by Marshall Ganz Download Open image “Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.” — Marshall Ganz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstraction Enemy Funny Inspirational Love Purpose
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.” — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning. — Kay WalkingStick 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
I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm constantly making… — Brice Marden 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 itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They think in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We… — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning. — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen. — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups. — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable. — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as… — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view. — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just… — Marshall Ganz 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