“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
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
Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
“It is so wearisome having to represent things. That is why I refuse to look at abstract art. It is much too… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn 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
“Everyone is trying to perfect beauty but they don’t realize it’s abstract art. It’s not something to perfect. Everyone is already beautiful… — Breana Najera Copy Share Image
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound,… — Robert Motherwell 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
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 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. — Pablo Picasso 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 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 wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold… — Dominique de Menil Copy Share Image
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
