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Tag Name "Abstraction" (246)

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Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
Robert Genn
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Abstraction is an esoteric language.
Eric Fischl
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Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.
Marshall Ganz
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Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.
Berenice Abbott
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Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.
Kerry James Marshall
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Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.
Sigfried Giedion
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Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem it does not require a belief in abstract entities.
Tom G. Palmer
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Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
Robert Smithson
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
Eric Maisel
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Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.
Jeff Koons
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Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
Jerry Saltz
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Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.
Gustave Flaubert
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Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.
Arshile Gorky
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Abstraction and realism work best together.
Ken Danby
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The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
Wallace Stevens
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Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.
Robert Toombs
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Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.
Wassily Kandinsky
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It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love and that there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions - the world of the spirits.
Robinson Jeffers
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I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.
Roland Barthes
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The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.
William Cecil Dampier
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
Sarah Caldwell
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A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.
William Hazlitt
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