Abstraction Quotes

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

  

  Cecily Brown
  • Ownership
  • Masculine
  • Abstraction

• 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
  • Energy
  • Realism
  • Abstraction

• A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Art
  • Dream
  • Advice

• I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

  

  Sean Scully
  • Jobs
  • Emotion
  • Abstraction

• 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
  • Mind
  • Tyranny
  • John Berger`s

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

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mankind
  • Individuals
  • Abstraction

• 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

• No substantial part of the universe is so simple that it can be grasped and controlled without abstraction. Abstraction consists in replacing the part of the universe under consideration by a model of similar but simpler structure. Models, formal and intellectual on the one hand, or material on the other, are thus a central necessity of scientific procedure.

  

  Arturo Rosenblueth
  • Universe
  • Abstraction

• 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
  • Career
  • Human being
  • Possession

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

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Abstract
  • Abstraction
  • Ache

• I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.

  

  Kay WalkingStick
  • Doe
  • Imagery
  • Abstraction

• Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Abstraction

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

  

  Alexander Stepanov
  • Ends
  • Starts
  • Abstraction

• I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

  

  Brice Marden
  • Painter
  • Abstraction

• The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.

  

  William Cecil Dampier
  • Understood
  • Accounts
  • Framed

• Such is the power of death - to strip away breath and transform a person into an airy abstraction.

  

  Anita Rau Badami
  • Death
  • Person
  • Abstraction

• For me, abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. I'll go further and say that abstraction is nearer my heart. I prefer to see with closed eyes.

  

  Josef Albers
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Abstraction

• 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
  • Balance
  • Distance
  • Intellect

• I like residing in abstraction.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Abstraction

• 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
  • Language
  • Word
  • Meaning

• Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Realizing
  • Expression
  • Image

• Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Dream

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