When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.
Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.
We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice.
. . . my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas. . . . the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.
Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.
Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning. . . Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the practical work done in computing, both in software and in hardware design, is unsound and clumsy because the people who do it have not any clear understanding of the fundamental design principles of their work. Most of the abstract mathematical and theoretical work is sterile because it has no point of contact with real computing.
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
I paint abstract expressions.
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!