"Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat'……" — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.

Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very… - Ralph P. Boas, Jr.

"Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a relatively small, primarily carnivorous mammal with retractible claws, a distinctive sonic output, etc.? I'll bet not. You probably show the kid a lot of different cats, saying 'kitty' each time, until it gets the idea. To put it more generally, generalizations are best made by abstraction from experience."

— Ralph P. Boas, Jr.

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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. — Josef Albers
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. — Sarah Caldwell
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra
Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,… — Leo Buscaglia
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of… — Evelyn Underhill
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor… — Emma Goldman
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. — Paul Gauguin
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal… — George Boole
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a… — Alexander Hamilton

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