73 Quotes About Abstraction

Il est de toute nécessité que je perde conscience de la réalité individuelle de l'être que je puis être amené à supprimer.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiated by their abstraction.

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete.

Form itself, even if completely abstract ... has its own inner sound.

I’ve always been enchanted by the show of electrical abstractions, within one’s mind; so colourful, myriad and seemingly contingent, which appear, sparkle, glimmer and dissolve into that infinite gloom which one is trying to vanquish with sleep.

Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations of the real world, they are not real, they don't quite work the way that the real world works. There is celebrity in both worlds. In the end, there is the same inevitable disappointment" - Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns & Money