Abstraction Quotes

A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.

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

I like residing in abstraction.

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

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

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

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

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

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.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

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

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

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.

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

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

Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.

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.

There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.