Abstract art Quote by Robert Genn

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

— Stephen Dunn

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a…

— Tom G. Palmer

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

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

— Henry Moore

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

— Eric Maisel

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

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

— Jerry Saltz

I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it

— Alexander Stepanov

“An abstraction is not a module, or an interface, class, or method; it is a structure, pure and simple-an idea reduced to its essential…

— Daniel Jackson

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

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a…

— Alfred North Whitehead