Abstract Quote by Ad Reinhardt Download Open image “The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.” — Ad Reinhardt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstract Inspirational Love Way
Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic,… — Marc Chagall 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
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The… — 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
When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't. — Ad Reinhardt 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
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the… — Robinson Jeffers 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 of the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move,… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
