Quotes About Abstraction

The words in books didn't just strengthen people's ability to think abstractly; they enriched people's experience of the physical world, the world outside the book.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul. What draws us away from God is not sensuality but abstraction.

Las matemáticas son la poesía del principio de identidad.

Since I've been rereading this book I'm anchored at point zero, considering a thousand strategies and points of view which soon dissolve, abstraction, abstraction, the gaze melts.

I'm painting color squares. One square - one color. That's what I paint.

They were more a new set of ways of looking at the universe, supported by the math, than a set of complex mathematical formulas.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Theory of all types is often presented as being so abstract that it can be appreciated only by a select few. Though often highly satisfying to academics, this definition excludes those who do not speak the language of elites and thus reinforces social relations of domination.

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

Mathematics is only a tool and one should learn to hold the physical ideas in one's mind without reference to the mathematical form.

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty

el cine se mueve en un nivel más cercano a la música y a la pintura que a la palabra escrita. Por eso, las películas ofrecen la oportunidad de explicar conceptos y abstracciones sin la tradicional dependencia de las palabras. En dos horas y cuarto , hay tan sólo cuarenta de diálogo [en 2001: una odisea del espacio] Stanley Kubrick Entrevista al New York Times el 1 de abril de 1953

Don't paint from nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more of the creation that will result.

Man lives 'in' meanings, in that which is valid logically, esthetically, religiously. The most fundamental expression of this fact is the language which gives man the power to abstract from the concretely given and, after having abstracted from it, to return to it, to interpret and transform it. The most vital being is the being which has the word and is by the word liberated from bondage to the given.

La plupart sont aveugles dans cet univers du langage; sourds aux mots qu'ils emploient. Leurs paroles ne sont qu'expédients; et l'expression pour eux n'est qu'un plus court chemin : ce minimum définit l'usage purement pratique du langage. Être compris, ---comprendre, --- sont les bornes entre lesquelles se resserre de plus en plus ce langage pratique, c'est-à-dire, abstrait.

facilita precisamente la universalidad al abstraer las características concretas de las personas y hacer de éstas tipos que representen al mayor número de individuos y cualidades comunes.

Así descubría la virtud paradójica de la lectura que consiste en abstraernos del mundo para hallarle un sentido

The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life. He spoke as if they were poetry, and they became poetry. Later, when he fell asleep, I leaned over him and watched, trying to picture a mathematician's dreams. I concluded that Stephen must dream in abstract, cool designs like Mondrian paintings.

The God I read about in the Bible is not what God is like—in some timeless abstraction, and that's that—but how God was imagined and then reimagined by ancient people of faith living in real times and places.

To describe the world is always to simplify its texture, to coarsen the weave: to lose the particular in general.

Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.