Abstraction Quote by Raymond Louis Wilder

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

— Alvin Ailey

The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the…

— Melchor Lim

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

— Remy de Gourmont

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

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

I like residing in abstraction.

— Sufjan Stevens

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

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

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

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

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

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