Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
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.
I'm not an abstractionist completely.
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.
A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
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