Abstraction Quotes

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
Ayn Rand

Mind, Everything, Religious

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis

Life, Beautiful, Moving

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
Deepak Chopra

Moving, Creativity, Universe

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Paul Cezanne

Nature, Everything, Pure

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
John Dewey

Whole, Complex, Object

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Strong, Off

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Time, Art

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
Jerry Saltz

Good, Art, Everything

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
Jerry Saltz

Greatest, Human, Imagine

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
Jerry Saltz

Beauty, Complex, Intense

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
Marshall McLuhan

Real, Person, Him

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
Toni Morrison

Women, Two, Personal

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
Dag Hammarskjold

Thinking, Everything, Made

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing

Truth, Person, Picture

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
Lena Dunham

Parents, Wanted, Felt

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
Josef Albers

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
Terence McKenna

Earth, Ourselves, Room

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
Dylan Thomas

City, Washington

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
Robert Smithson

Everybody, Nobody, Zero

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Jean Piaget

Individual, Actions, However

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.
Stephen Jay Gould

Learning, Past, Known

War is an abstraction.
Bruce Jackson

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
Jean Piaget

Simple, Sense, Second

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.
Jean Piaget

Time, Give, Individual

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
Daniel Clowes

Give, Vision, Line

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
Franz Grillparzer

Women, Men, Different

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.
Chuck Hagel

Country, Often, Policy

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
John Bruton

Free, Grow, Economy

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.
Remy de Gourmont

Truth, Two, Fact

Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.
Robert Toombs

History, Another, Tell

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