Abstraction Quote by Piet Mondrian

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers

Our lives don't make sense in abstraction, only when compared with the lives of others.

— Maria Konnikova

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

— Stephen Dunn

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz

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

— Jerry Saltz

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

In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the…

— Tony Hoare

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

Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned…

— Sigfried Giedion

“In learning, we draw an abstraction from concrete objects and events. In creating, we make our own concrete objects and events out of the…

— Ayn Rand

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore