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Source: Adventures of Ideas

“Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.”

Left Class Century Keys Areas Contrast Abstraction Bourgeois Proletariat Bourgeoisie Petite

Author:Roland Barthes

“Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.”

Art Reality Art Is Deny Works Of Art Decay Abstraction

Book:Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s

Source: Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s

“Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.”

Decision Moral Modern Morality Genuine Abstraction Moral Decisions

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.”

Should Persons Audience Depends Taste Should Have Abstraction Pardon Conductor

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind at work, spinning symbolism and abstraction in a way that only Homo sapiens is capable of doing.”

Knows Way Mind Humans Art Language Powerful Modern Capable Art Is Human Mind Abstraction Spinning Homo Sapiens Symbolism Puzzling

Book:The Origin Of Humankind

Source: The Origin Of Humankind

“No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society”

Mind Doe Self Individual Space Shapes Visible Abstraction Elusive

Author:Irving Howe

“The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels.”

Feels Humans Ideas Willing Intellectual Importance Committed Human Life Signals Abstraction Intellectualism Enlisted

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel than to any kind of 'realism'. The photograph has an abstraction of its own, which is not easy to see through.”

Thinking Knows Kind Art Easy Painting Conscious Paint Photograph Realism Abstraction

Author:Gerhard Richter

“... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful, because I like to work from nature - although I do use a photograph - because I think that any detail from nature has a logic I would like to see in abstraction as well.”

Thinking Wells Art Stills Use Hands Painting Logic Paint Photograph Productions Details Landscape Abstract Abstraction

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was never really a conscious decision. It was simply a question of desire. In fact, I really prefer making figurative work, but the figure is difficult. So to work around the difficulty I take a break and paint abstractly. Which I really like, by the way, because it allows me to make beautiful paintings.”

Way Art Facts Beautiful Desire Difficult Decision Break Figures Painting One Day Conscious Difficulty Paint Abstraction Beautiful Paintings

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Cloud storage in data centers will utilize the latest developments in physical storage virtualization, deduplication and other methods to make the most effective use of physical storage assets. Software defined storage could allow a further level of abstraction and cost effectiveness. The vast bulk of content stored "in the cloud" will reside on large SATA interface HDDs with some on magnetic (mostly LTO) tape (particularly for "archives.")”

Use Levels Development Cost Method Clouds Defined Data Assets Software Tape Abstraction Effectiveness Magnetic Storage Interfaces Archives Data Centers

Author:Tom Coughlin

“The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.”

People Ifs Feels Grows Economy Secure Abstraction

Author:John Bruton

“I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.”

Way Want Giving Looks Kind Certain Lines Vision Fine Realism Abstraction Fine Lines

Author:Daniel Clowes

“What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.”

Art Running Individual Museums Abstraction Dealer

Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.”

World Way Giving Real Together Jobs Form Interest Realizing Identity Logic Symbols Real World Abstraction Quirky

Author:Caio Fonseca

“It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!”

Today Cost Benefits Programming Abstraction Uncommon

Author:John Carmack

“This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood.”

Doe Form Culture Language Development Reflection Concepts Deny Symbols Contradiction Falsehood Vocabulary Abstraction Reducing Transcendent Truth And Falsehood

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.”

Writing Doe Use Realizing Natural Land Objects Expression Symbols Concrete Abstraction Adequate Superfluous Adjectives

Book:The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition

Source: The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition

“We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.”

Humans Political Evil Accepting Struggle Goes On Police Monsters Frightened Abstraction Deliverance

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.”

Thinking Wells Ends Play Term Roles Discipline Program Structure Profession Architecture Abstraction Defining Organizational Organizational Structure

Author:Rem Koolhaas

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