Quotes About Abstraction

If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that partially redeems the losses time brings and finds beauty in the faraway.

What is the colour of abstraction? What is the smell of hope?

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the imagination. They are the real individuals, their activity and the material conditions under which they live, both those which they find already existing and those produced by their activity. These premises can thus be verified in a purely empirical way.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

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