Our Friends
Abstraction Quotes
|
|
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies. (Quote by -William Hazlitt)
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself. (Quote by -Henry Havelock Ellis)
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. (Quote by - Terence McKenna)
It is no longer an abstraction, no longer a CNN news item. (Quote by - Bob Carr)
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation. (Quote by - Roland Barthes)
Even if the central themes were copied, they are too general or of too low a level of abstraction to be capable of protection by copyright law. (Quote by - Peter Smith)
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. (Quote by - Jean Piaget)
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence. (Quote by - Henri Matisse)
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness: this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joys and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities. (Quote by -Jiddu Krishnamurti)
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. (Quote by - Leo F. Buscaglia)
They like hearing about countries that few, if any, of them have visited. Anytime someone can talk about firsthand experiences it becomes more real. It's not an intellectual abstraction. (Quote by - David Burrows)
The transaction level is a substantially higher level of abstraction than standard behavioral level, and its advantages are compelling. (Quote by - Brett Cline)
I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now. (Quote by - Michael Baden)