I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.” — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered. — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso” — Edward B. Burger Copy Share Image
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be… — Christopher Willard Copy Share Image
Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“I learnt very early that people like you belong on the margin. You know, if something happens to you, good luck with… — I'm not gay a gay abstract painter (no but I understand the minority mentality Copy Share Image
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“When I was fourteen, I had a massive poster on my wall of a giant pop-art mouth advertising a Swiss exhibition of… — Stewart Lee Copy Share Image
Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“He returned in a moment with a phone, a high-end model that probably cost way more than hers. His cell phone wallpaper… — Linda Morrisx Copy Share Image
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“Yes, I hate blown glass art and I happen to live in the blown glass art capital of the world, Seattle, Washington.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“There exist few things more tedious than a discussion of general ideas inflicted by author or reader upon a work of fiction.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The psychology of the unconscious and abstract art, two groundbreaking ideas of the early twentieth century, were actually close cousins, with a… — Damion Searls Copy Share Image
“Noa sleeps with the curtains open, allowing as much moonlight as possible to flood her bedroom, allowing her to see each and… — Menna van Praag Copy Share Image
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form. — Anton Ehrenzweig Copy Share Image
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
