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Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.
— Richard Diebenkorn
War is an abstraction.
— Bruce Jackson
The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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.
— Linus Torvalds
The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.
— Sidney Coleman
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
— Wallace Stevens
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted ...
— Sigfried Giedion
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
— Gustave Flaubert
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
— Jean Piaget
Art, indeed, began with abstraction.
— Sigfried Giedion
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.
— Alvin Ailey
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me ... to carry meaning.
— Kay WalkingStick
Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
— May Sarton
It is only inside abstraction and expression and chaos that he is alive.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.
— Piet Mondrian
It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.
— Gustave Flaubert
As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul.
— Doris Lessing
Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.
— Wassily Kandinsky
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
— Wallace Stevens
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.
— Fulton J. Sheen
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Plane geometry is sort of the key course where you learn about proving things and abstraction.
— Sheldon Lee Glashow
LOVE is one kind of abstraction ...
— David Levithan
Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.
— Helen Lynd
All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.
— Milford Zornes
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
— Aldous Huxley
I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
— Lena Dunham
An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.
— Isabel Paterson
Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
— Dylan Thomas
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.
— Jack Donovan
The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
— Samora Machel
I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
— Brice Marden
Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
— Willem De Kooning
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
— Gabriel Marcel
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.
— Swami Vivekananda
When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
— Lorraine Hansberry
It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!
— John Carmack
Wisdom ... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
— Robert Smithson
Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.
— Aleksandar Hemon
What is the colour of abstraction? What is the smell of hope?
— Richard Dawkins
Such is the power of death -- to strip away breath and transform a person into an airy abstraction.
— Anita Rau Badami
Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.
— Jonah Goldberg
Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.
— Henry David Thoreau
Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.
— Paul Gauguin
Resisting premature abstraction is as important as abstraction itself.
— Robert C. Martin
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.
— Gustave Flaubert
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
— Antony Tudor
I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?
— Cecily Brown
Time is an abstraction of eternity. A glimpse, for mortals, of what could be if we spend ours wisely in life.
— Dean Cavanagh
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.
— Auguste Comte
I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it
— Alexander Stepanov
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
— Anne Carson
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
— Henri Matisse
Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
— Nat Friedman
Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.
— Charles Lindbergh
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.
— Sean Scully
That was the beginning of her abstraction.
— Alice Walker
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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[M]an [has] the power of abstraction from himself[.]
— Ludwig Feuerbach
Faith is not a generalized abstraction but a way of life that is expressed in persistent prayer.
— Eugene H. Peterson
She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.
— Neil Gaiman
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
— Joel Sternfeld
All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
— Joel Spolsky
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. ...
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.
— Michel Gondry
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
— Jerry Saltz
Somewhere, floating in a muddled abstraction beyond your existence as a generally good person, are the Externalities. Fuck 'em and God Bless 'em.
— Jeremy Robert Johnson
