Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase.
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.