Quotes About Conceptualization

All good art is abstract.

You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

Very few of us in our saner moments believe that the particular postulates that some logicians have dreamed up create the numbers - no, most of us believe that the real numbers are simply there and that it has been an interesting, amusing, and important game to try to find a nice set of postulates to account for them.

For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is about. Instead, the focus is on learning and applying various procedures to solve math problems. That's a bit like explaining soccer by saying it is executing a series of maneuvers to get the ball into the goal. Both accurately describe various key features, but they miss the what? and the why? of the big picture.

If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

1. The brain uses images to help the conscious mind understand.

All great art is abstract.

I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something which can be conceived and which can neither be seen nor made visible.

An ideal map would contain the map of the map, the map of the map of the map.,endlessly. This characteristic was first discovered by Royce. We may call it self-reflexiveness.

Beware the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.

There are properties, one wants to say, that have never been entertained by any human being; and it also seems wrong to think that properties do not exist before human beings conceive them.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

Geometric diagrams are to geometers what board and pieces are to chessmasters: visual aids, helpful but not indispensable.

If you hypnotized somebody and told him not to use the word "nose," and then asked him to explain the sense of smell, you would get the same kind of drifting linguistic snow banks in his answers. Intellectuals, who have more abstractions stored in their biocomputers, are more skilled at this than most, but all can do it to some extent.

Because our minds process information almost solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category and lies outside of the realm of our analogies.

Because our minds process information solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category.

The man who can't visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is part of the way I think. For me, teaching and explaining, even to my imaginary audience, is part of the process.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality.