Abstraction Quotes
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There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.
Michel Gondry
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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
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Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.
Diane Ackerman
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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
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I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it.
Alexander Stepanov
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Such is the power of death - to strip away breath and transform a person into an airy abstraction.
Anita Rau Badami
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Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.
Stephen Dunn
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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
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I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
Brice Marden
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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
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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