No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you dont fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me. . . to carry meaning.
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction.
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.
Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work.
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. RUMI, attributed, Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.
The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.
To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence.
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.