Abstraction Quote by Michael Jackson

“Without a home, everything is fragmentation. -John Berger”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it…

— Edith Wharton

“While the romantic individualist deludes himself with unrealizable fantasies, in the attempt to evade bourgeois society, and only succeeds in destroying himself, he lets…

— Edmund Wilson

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”

— Joseph Brodsky

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

“This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like those depots in which…

— Emmanuel Lévinas

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

“Reasonable–that is, human–men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into…

— Gene Wolfe

To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion…

— Jacob Epstein