Quotes About Abstraction

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

The abstract artist, he said, would be repeatedly challenged by such skeptics asking, "'What does it mean?'… 'Is it a sky, a house, a horse?'" To which they should respond with confidence and honesty, "'No, it is a painting.'"29

About how human brains take complex information about the world and simplify it, so that when a human looks at a tree it translates the intricately complex mass of leaves and branches into this thing called 'tree'. To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.

The genesis of the whole by composition of the parts is fictitious. It arbitrarily breaks the chain of reciprocal determinations,..Each chronaxie is but one aspect of the total process; it is by abstraction that it is treated as a local event. In the nervous system there are only global events.

Ambiguity is not a lack of univocity. Ambiguity is 'good'...In truth, we have experience of knowledge and knowledge of experience. These two faces of ambiguity are abstractions. The absolute is that which is between the two: the transformation of one into the other. -From Philosophy and Non-Philosophy Since Hegel

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.

The person is repulsive to it because of being "egoistic," because of not being that abstraction, Man.

That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. The details didn't matter.

Encapsulation is important, but the reason why it is important is more important. Encapsulation helps us reason about our code.

The love God pours out on the world is effective in our lives to the degree that we open ourselves to it. Until we do, we presume it is just an abstraction.

Not your view, I know—you'd be happy to describe what you were up to purely in differential equations if you could—" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen".

Her work was indeed elliptical, she left out everything that was essential, including logic and meaning. Her words neither described nor observed things. They were just words scattered across the page. This was braininess of the highest order, the verbal equivalent of the white canvas passed off as a painting; so abstract that to have expected some sense from it would have insulted the artist.

The moral division of labor between newspapers, then, may parallel the moral division of the human faculties between the more respectable faculties of abstraction and the less respectable feelings. People control themselves to read of politics in fine print; they let themselves go to read of murders or to look at drawings of celebrities. Information is a genre of self-denial, the story one of self-indulgence.

The main lesson here is that not every problem can be solved at the level of abstraction where it manifests.

Îmi pl?ceau cataloagele turistice, caracterul lor abstract, felul lor de a reduce locurile lumii la un È™ir de tarife È™i fericiri posibile: apreciam în special sistemul de notare cu steluÈ›e, indicând intensitatea fericirii la care erai îndrept??it s? speri.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

misliti u slikama i opajati se mnogolikom izmjenljivoš?u slika.

geometrical forms, such as triangles and circles, and the concepts of arithmetic, such as whole numbers and fractions, are abstractions of certain properties of physical objects.

Another example may also help us to appreciate the abstractness of numbers. Mathematically, is equal to . But the corresponding physical fact may not be true.

try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis;...

An art critic and a psychologist are very similar to each other, they both look for insanity in abstraction, a grain of logic.

Logic is pixels of reality. They are getting smaller and smaller.

all theories are oversimplifications, or at least lead to oversimplification.