73 Quotes About Abstraction

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

For in metaphor Abstraction can give one kind of wind, Concretion another, and if one metaphor is complicated by another they can together untie the bag of all the other winds that toss us between reality and imagination.

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

To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.

Know thyself art Love itself. I repeat; Know thyself art Love itself and that anything else is an abstraction at best and suffering at worst.

Knowledge of anything but concrete things stems from an illusion.

All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances are infinitely more bearable than the disturbing reality of mundane work-to-live-then-die-bored life.

The world is too much for us. Rationality as we have come to know it works by ignoring most of experience: laws are arrived at by selective abstraction.

Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces.