1.
A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.
Giorgio Armani
3.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
Josef Albers
4.
The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
Samora Machel
7.
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
Ad Reinhardt
8.
Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.
R. D. Laing
9.
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Jean Piaget
12.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Paul Cezanne
15.
I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
Julie Mehretu
17.
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
18.
Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
Dylan Thomas
19.
Abstraction and realism work best together.
Ken Danby
20.
Oh abstractions are just abstract
until they have an ache in them.
Stephen Dunn
21.
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
Sarah Caldwell
22.
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
Anne Carson
23.
In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.
Steve McConnell
25.
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.
Raymond Louis Wilder
27.
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.
Robert Breault
28.
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.
Kay WalkingStick
29.
Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
May Sarton
30.
The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.
Berkeley Breathed
31.
There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.
Michel Gondry
32.
Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.
John Piper
33.
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
Eric Maisel
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All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
Joel Spolsky