53 Abstraction Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Man Mind Everything Religious Highest Smallest Abstraction Attribute His Wheel Reasoning Skyscraper Function Necessity

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

Man World Big Administrator Touch Inspires Abstraction Feel Merging Him Terror Real His Person Real Person Bureaucratic Who Things

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy. Wynton Marsalis

Love Attitude Me Musical Philosophy Some About Give Give Me Oblique Writes Put Abstract Abstraction Like Look Got References Trumpet Person Just Mayonnaise Really Who Things Sauce Ketchup

When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche. Alfonso Cuaron

You Experience Important Tool Those Abstraction Almost Beyond Most Narrative Important Tool Doing Hits Psyche Create Your Moment Moments Film

For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance. Amitava Kumar

People Radical Distance Projected Liberation Members Some Developing Abstraction Developing Countries Countries Particularly Ideological Comfortable West Left Fantasies Whom

I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure abstraction, but the narratives of human lives hold my attention every time. Andrew Solomon

Love Time Pure Reading Every Every Time Intrigued Someone Drift Abstraction Attention Narratives His Off Endlessly Human Hold Stories Story Formulate Helping Lives Her

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do. Antonio Damasio

Simple Mind Pay Minds Those Self Abstraction Attention Operate Principles Because Without Lot Brains Same Precisely Who Creatures

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man. Bruno Dumont

Me Man Women Vision Imagination Type Criticise Abstraction Because Am Exist Expected Explain Them Many Necessarily

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic. Caio Fonseca

You Together Intelligence World Job Invent Way Say Would Logic Give Put Abstraction Also Identity Real Quirky The Real World Real World Interest Forms Them Realize Engage Your Keeps Things Inner Symbols

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 Understanding Consequences Too Our Complications See Tend Abstraction Policy Foreign Foreign Policy Endeavors Often Committing Little Washington

When I started the band, the name 'Silver Jews' had no literal meaning - it was just an abstraction. David Berman

Band Jews Silver Had Abstraction Name Just Literal Meaning Started

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music. David Longstreth

Music Art You Kind Abstraction Avant-Garde Associate

Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Life Real Life Our Our Lives Easy Generalities Developing Abstraction Attributes Practicing Deal Real Test Begin Task Move Proclaim Away Lives

I'm drawn to silhouettes because of their emblematic rather than their illustrational quality. I see them as shapes, allowing an image to become an abstraction and for pure painting to take place. Donald Baechler

Quality Pure Become Painting Drawn See Rather Take Shapes Allowing Abstraction Because Than Place Them Image

Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded. Eliot Schrefer

Book Important Young Only Adult Abstraction Discarded Calling Reader Get Young Adult After Should Help Useless Right

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

Me Balance World Wish Distance Considering Out Carry Would Prevent Abstraction Freely Beyond Intellect Privilege Infinite Hanging Confines Then Means Special Who Figures Imagined

In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art. F. Sionil Jose

Art Simple Painting Way Those Visual Visual Arts Distrust Simple Way Abstraction Particularly Judging Very Artificial Arts Them

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

I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure. Hilton Als

Me Painting Think Collaborative Something More Colors Exchange Generally Abstraction Feel Feels Like Sure Always Subject Than Sitter Often Just Whereas Interested Aspect Connected Portraits

Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a language - sign language - and they can use the signs. But when you think of our intellects, even the brightest chimp looks like a very small child. Jane Goodall

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