Abstraction Quote by Robert Breault

Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous,…

— Novalis

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

— William Irwin Thompson

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

— Maria Konnikova

I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm constantly making…

— Brice Marden

To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

— Terry Tempest Williams

I'm not an abstractionist completely.

— Cy Twombly

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

— Pablo Picasso

Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists…

— Anonymous

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

— James Gleick