Best Abstraction Quotes

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

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

If you want an application to be portable, you don’t necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It’s really cool.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

I paint – I tend more to abstraction – but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture – I’ve toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

Two elements are needed to form a truth – a fact and an abstraction

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It relates to something. Non-objective relates to nothing. It has no object.

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

A bit of advice, don’t copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .

There are absences, but there are also presences. It’s about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn’t know the painting was going to be about that, but it has to have that journey; I have to learn something, I have to end up somewhere I didn’t expect to be, otherwise, I don’t think it’s painting.

The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions – faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.

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

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like ‘seeking truth.

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can’t be said so well with words.