Abstraction Quotes

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction. Jane Velez-Mitchell
Nature Abstraction Study Very
I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal. Janet Fitch
Time Abstraction Always Go Personal Hard Hard Time
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 Rise Give Objects Touching Individual Throwing Pushing Abstraction Most Hand Actions Rubbing
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
Art Good Changed Everything Relativity Everywhere Abstraction Idea Version Quickly Einstein Theory
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
People Will Free Consists Secure Only Abstraction Feel Economy Reasonably Grow
An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too. John Lithgow
Father Feeling Thinking Too Else Something Something Else Had He Abstraction Like Always Artist
I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction. Julie Mehretu
Abstraction Interested Really Element
I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived. Junot Diaz
Me First Past Think Kid Ghosts Composed About Entirely Something Write Instead Abstraction Identity Caught Foremost Being Want Wanted In The Past Really Your Painful Lived Whose Thing Utterly
Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away. Kelela
Music Relating Immensely Abstraction Ultimately Far Far Away Popular Popular Music Away
First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer. Kent Beck
You Engineer Value First Cost Abstraction Learn Ready Then
I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific. Lena Dunham
Parents Something Abstraction Like Involved Felt Always Were Very Wanted Specific
In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase. Marcel Duchamp
Painting Our Static Abstraction Knowing Equally Within Without Real Articulated Person Real Person Movement Wanted Staircase Create Deduction Descending Image
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century. Marcel Duchamp
First Beginning Adding Our Characteristic Distortion Some Color Simplified Abstraction Toward Since Terms Impressionist After Which Again Century Then Landscape Reason Painter
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. Max Bill
Art Natural Words Other Resources Rules Those Borrowing Abstraction Call Without Concrete Came Being In Other Words Transforming Natural Phenomena Inherent Works Phenomena External Basis
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. Oscar Wilde
You Dangerous Beauty Young Nothing Indeed Strip Weak Must Constantly Vitality Touch More Lifeless He Abstraction Ideal Conception Led Than Any Artist Young Artist Whereas Either
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. Paul Cezanne
Nature Pure Everything Distinct Drawing Colour Coloured Abstraction
Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status. Peter Landesman
Art Quality Sometimes Beauty Painting Difficult Mark Intrinsic Fraud Status Seems Abstraction Particular Identity Because Vulnerable Understand Understood Than Modern Modern Art Often Loved Social Less Painter Grasp
When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails. Philipp Meyer
Generally Abstraction Deal Go Off Novels Rails
I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction. Piet Mondrian
Progressing More Never Abstraction Toward Economy Felt Concise Began Very Quickly Stopped Form Urgent Urgent Need Means Naturalistic Painter Expression Need
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract. Rafael Vinoly
Music You Architecture First Fall Thinking Incredibly Way Has-Been Exactly Exactly What About Constructive Abstract True Abstraction Know First Of All Been Which Trap
Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions. Richard Russo
Perceptive Abstraction Most Deals Even Sociology
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 You Those Tell Both Never Abstraction Blind Another Deaf Territorial Without Territory Years Question The History Of African Sixty Who Last
My job is to return abstraction to the people: in a sense, to popularize it without lowering the bar, which is a lot easier said than done. Sean Scully
People Job Sense Easier Abstraction Return Without Said Lot Than Done Which Bar Lowering
When people hear the term 'political prisoner,' especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice, and they're aware that there are folks in prison who are in prison, you know, largely because of their activism. Ta-Nehisi Coates
You Injustice People Political Prison Prisoner Kind Folks Abstraction Term Know Because Becomes Hear Left Who Activism Aware Largely
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities. Tom G. Palmer
Problem Relevant Mental Entities Abstract Abstraction Discern Does Trying Essential Process Require Use Belief
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
Me You Rights Women Equality Cause About Only Abstraction Also Affair Personal Just Us Two
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