Abstraction Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

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

— Maria Konnikova

“In a life, or a portion of a life illuminated, there's a fullness and a balance that no theory or abstraction can match. Why…

— Mark Helprin

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers

“Life as observed only from the scientific point of view is bare abstraction; it is not concrete life; nor is life as observed only…

— Kaiten Nukariya

I'm not an abstractionist completely.

— Cy Twombly

I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.

— Alva Noe

We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than…

— Edward T. Hall

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

— Ellsworth Kelly

If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe, the mystery…

— Tao Lin

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes…

— Piet Mondrian

“Any event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists make abstraction…

— Fulton J. Sheen