Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. — Robert Breault 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
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
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things.… — Storm Jameson 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 art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in… — Sean William Scott Copy Share Image
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes… — Bob Blumer 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
“I blink rapidly, breaking our reverie and force myself to focus on something,anything, other than his beauty. Or his body. A body… — S.L. Jennings Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
“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
“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
Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art. — Keaton Stromberg Copy Share Image
The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image