Abstraction Quotes

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

K. W. Jeter
- Age
- Wealth
- Mental
I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?

Cecily Brown

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

Evelyn Underhill