Quotes About Abstraction

It's all down to knowing how to do it, knowing how to concentrate your mind on a single point, knowing how to abstract yourself sufficiently to bring about the hallucination and therefore substitute the dream of reality for reality itself.

The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Gödel saw beyond the surface level of number theory, realizing that numbers could represent any kind of structure.

The picture was dizzying, stupefying - a Picasso collage pasted together from a collection of shattered ideas.

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Abstracting human wisdom into models often works better than relying on human experts as models are often more consistent and less noisy.

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.

Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.

No hay palabras que sean como el agua destilada, insustanciales, ajenas a la vida y al mundo.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

Use concrete events to think about large ideas. Use large ideas to think about concrete events.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

Jackson Pollock.

Unato? tim trenuta?nim uvidima u ne?iji život, platna i materijali na njima imali su neku apstraktnu odliku, krajnju prazninu koja je izražavala bizarnost same smrtnosti, osje?aj da, ?ak i ako sa?uvamo svaku mrvicu života, nagomilamo ih na divovsku hrpu, a potom pažljivo prosijemo da izvu?emo sva mogu?a zna?enja, sve to zajedno opet ne?e sastaviti jedan život.