Michael Leunig

I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It's so impressive what they do with their bodies. It's like painting: an abstraction.

Australian Cartoonist

Lee Krasner

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.

American Artist

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

Argentinian Activist

Stephen Jay Gould

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

American Scientist

Franz Grillparzer

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

Austrian Poet

David Lynch

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

American Director

Havelock Ellis

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

British Psychologist

Jeff Dean

There's nothing like necessity of needing to do something to cause you to come up with abstractions that help you break through the forms.

American Musician

Deepak Chopra

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

American Speaker

Remy de Gourmont

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.

French Novelist

Think of 'abstraction' as stepping back to look at the big picture, not the tiny details.

Beyond Specifics

'Abstraction' in academic contexts can lead to deep insights and understanding larger concepts.

Conceptual Thinking

'Abstraction' in art means capturing feelings or ideas without depicting real objects.

Artistic Interpretation

Abstract art depends on personal interpretation, so think about what it means to you.

Personal Response

In computing, 'abstraction' means managing complexity by simplifying and reducing details.

Tech Simplification

'Abstraction' layers in software allow users to interact without knowing the underlying complexity.

Layering Concepts

'Abstraction' can be used to discuss ideas that aren't physically tangible but are understood conceptually.

Intangible Ideas

In a legal sense, 'abstraction' can mean the act of wrongly removing or stealing something.

Wrongful Removal

'Abstraction' can also imply an unethical acquiring or taking away of resources or rights.

Unethical Taking

 We're developing tools and sharing them freely with hundreds of groups all over the world for them to study and try to treat different disorders. Our hope is that by figuring out brain circuits at a level of abstraction that lets us repair them and engineer them, we can take some of these intractable disorders I mentioned earlier,

Ed Boyden: A light...

 It's because you're all doing a cross-model synesthetic abstraction, meaning you're saying that that sharp inflection -- ki-ki, in your auditory cortex, the hair cells being excited -- Kiki, mimics the visual inflection, sudden inflection of that jagged shape. Now, this is very important, because what it's telling you

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 were preserved and further developed, resulting in fundamental advancements in scientific study and mathematics. Accompanying this was an increasingly sophisticated use of abstraction and complex geometry in Islamic art, from intricate floral motifs adorning carpets and textiles,

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 filled the board in rawhide and I painted a really simple abstraction on the surface the piece is titled time castle I want to preserve my memory of his relentless optimism the work i make forces us to consider what is art how is it made and who is it made by if

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 to help them communicate. Now, many of the problems that children with autism face, they have a common source, and that source is that they find it difficult to understand abstraction, symbolism. And because of this, they have a lot of difficulty with language.

Ajit Narayanan: A word...

 This is what an image looks like from your cell phone. But this is what it looks like in a visual abstraction. This is what your music looks like, but here's its visual abstraction. Most importantly for me, this is what the code on your cell phone looks like.

Chris Domas: The 1s and...

 Now this is kind of the abstraction for the sound output on my computer. Okay? So I've connected myself into the speaker. Next, I'm going to say my frequency is 440 hertz, and I'm going to let time advance by two seconds through this operation.

Ge Wang: The DIY...

 started to realize that we were looking at images of deep time we became so fascinated with the psalmist creativity that we started photographing sections of the body as beautiful abstractions in themselves a few years ago we decided to

Carol Beckwith & Angela...

 and police brutality and really needing to advance towards social justice and social change so the three principles are very simple and they are as follows number one treat people like human beings not like political abstractions number

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 and it's a world where we've had to develop new mental habits, new habits of mind. And these include things like clothing that concrete world with classification, introducing abstractions that we try to make logically consistent,