Abstract Quote by Alex Katz

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon

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 to a…

— Etel Adnan

A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and not so…

— Edward Ruscha

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially…

— Lucien Smith

“Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour - that is all. It often seems…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

— James Acaster

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I…

— Willem de Kooning

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

— Susan Sontag

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy…

— Joe Bradley

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

— Ben Shahn

The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle,…

— Aaron Siskind