Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi. — Mark Rothko 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
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp 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 is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. — Kenneth Tynan 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
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact… — Salvador Dali 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
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
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
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... — Asger Jorn 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson 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
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
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'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
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn 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
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
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
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
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
