Quotes About Abstraction

What a powerful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it.

What a powerful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it.

What a wonderful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it.

Someone might say, I don't understand music; but most people experience music emotionally and would agree that music is an abstraction. You don't need to put music into words right away--you just listen. Cinema is a lot like music. It can be very abstract, but people have a yearning to make intellectual sense of it, to put it right into words.

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

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

A justiça é uma abstração, representada por uma reunião de indivíduos a todo o momento substituídos, e cujas boas intenções, cuja memória são, como eles, extremamente ambulatórias. As

Like justice, it existed in theory.

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

I don't like videos that explain the song. I like it to be kind of abstract, like a painting.

The Universal view melts things into a blur.

I don't ask myself if I did what I set out to do. The calling was for a life and the junctures between one work and another were often not that explicit, the future only an abstraction we pull ourselves toward with, once again, the false geometry of days and nights, months and years, an illusion in the face of the continuum that makes up our lives.

The sentiment that is very inappropriately named quality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of equality and is not related to any abstraction, as a few naive "intellectuals" still believe; but because it is related to the direct interests of individuals who are bent on escaping certain inequalities not in their favour, and setting up new inequalities that will be in their favour, that latter being their chief concern.

As Dickinson's Misery suggests in a number of ways, when lyric becomes an adjective, it evokes a theory of personal expression and abstraction that was highly problematic for Dickinson, but that has come to be highly valued in retrospect by modernism.

Theory is intermodal, theory is the concept of art.

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool.

Un jour, j'irai vivre en Théorie, car en Théorie, tout se passe bien.

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.