Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
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.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
I'm not an abstractionist completely.
A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.
I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.
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.