Abstraction Quote by Peter Kreeft

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't…

— David Lynch

The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual.…

— Ellen Hunnicutt

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers

Abstraction and realism work best together.

— Ken Danby

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

— Pablo Picasso

...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

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

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in…

— Edith Stein

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

— Giorgio Morandi

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

— Morris Kline

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

— Stephen Dunn

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

— Joe Bradley