Quotes of: Abstraction Keyword

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

Sarah Caldwell

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Berthold Auerbach

Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past.

Luhraw

Life’s contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity

Munia Khan

[T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self—a symbol of each of us.

Don Richard Riso

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

Julie Mehretu

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

Denis Diderot

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Stephen Hawking

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Ellen Key

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

Jerry Saltz

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

Renzo Piano

Out of doors one becomes abstract and impersonal.One's individuality absolutely leaves one.

Oscar Wilde

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

Philipp Meyer

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Theodor Adorno

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

Caroline Shaw

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

Jim Hodges

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

Rahm Emanuel

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.

Donald Byrd

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

James Blake

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

Tom Lehrer