Abstraction Quotes

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

Cecily Brown
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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it.

Alexander Stepanov
- Ends
- Starts
- Abstraction
Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

Stephen Dunn
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