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.

I like residing in abstraction.

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

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

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

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

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

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

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

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

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.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

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

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

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.

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.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.