Abstraction Quotes

Age, like wealth is but a mental abstraction, my boy~ Herr Doktor Pavel

K. W. Jeter
- Age
- Wealth
- Mental
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 these statements about how you should just look at it and react to it on your own; just relax and let go.

Brice Marden
- People
- Area
- Abstraction

I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?

Cecily Brown
I do not think it possible to convey the moral energy that went into this division between abstraction and realism, from both sides, in those years. It had an almost theological intensity, and in another stage of civilization there would certainly have been burnings at stake.

Arthur Danto
As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism.

Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
- Abstraction
- Cubism
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

Evangelista Torricelli
Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."

Michael Jackson