Abstraction Quotations

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

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

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

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

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.

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

Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.

To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

I like residing in abstraction.

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.