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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

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. — Criss Jami

To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence. — Jacob Epstein

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

Imagination, abstraction, creativity, and coherence etc are some inherently cognitive and mental elements of architect-wise thinking. — Pearl Zhu

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

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

There is no abstract truth, any more than there is abstract love. — Marty Rubin

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

Art, indeed, began with abstraction. — Sigfried Giedion

Oh abstractions are just abstract
until they have an ache in them. — Stephen Dunn

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

First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer. — Kent Beck

I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me ... to carry meaning. — Kay WalkingStick

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction. — Julie Mehretu

Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction. — May Sarton

It is only inside abstraction and expression and chaos that he is alive. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete. — Marty Rubin

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

The computer programmer creates the only path available to the computer user; the effect of his decisions on others is masked by their abstraction. — Michael Lewis

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols. — Gustave Flaubert

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction. — R.D. Laing

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

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. — Jeff Koons

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. — Aldous Huxley

When your problem is one of needing numerous specializations of a stable, common abstraction, inheritance can be an extremely low-cost solution. — Anonymous

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

Whenever the mind tries to ascend into realms of new and sublime abstraction, matter persists and confines it in the cellar of habit. — Juan Filloy

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

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 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

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

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

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche. — Joe Bradley

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

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix. — Erik Naggum

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. — William Blake

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Age, like wealth is but a mental abstraction, my boy"~ Herr Doktor Pavel — K.W. Jeter

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

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction. — Max Roach

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

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it. — Albert Camus

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

For a new generation, nature is more abstraction than reality. — Richard Louv

[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

I am ... I am constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Joseph Addison

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one. — Henry Moore