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Abstraction Quotes

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

Authors on Abstraction Quotes: Paul Cezanne Josef Albers R. D. Laing Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Berkeley Breathed Michel Gondry Stephen Dunn Julie Mehretu Samora Machel Ken Danby Albert Camus Michael Crichton Robert Smithson John Piper Sarah Caldwell Giorgio Armani Anne Carson Steve McConnell Eric Maisel Jean Piaget Raymond Louis Wilder Joel Spolsky Wallace Stevens Sufjan Stevens Ad Reinhardt Marshall Ganz Sigfried Giedion Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Willem de Kooning Kay WalkingStick Dylan Thomas May Sarton Robert Breault
2.
Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
Josef Albers

4.
The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
Samora Machel

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To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

7.
I like residing in abstraction.
Sufjan Stevens

8.
Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.
R. D. Laing

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

10.
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
Robert Smithson

11.
Art, indeed, began with abstraction.
Sigfried Giedion

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

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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
Paul Cezanne

14.
I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
Julie Mehretu

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Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
Wallace Stevens

16.
Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.
Marshall Ganz

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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.
Abstraction and realism work best together.
Ken Danby

19.
Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
Dylan Thomas

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

24.
Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.
Michael Crichton

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

26.
Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
Willem de Kooning

27.
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.
Robert Breault

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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

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

30.
Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.
John Piper

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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

32.
All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
Joel Spolsky

33.
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.
Kay WalkingStick

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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
May Sarton