Abstraction Quote by Andreas Gursky

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the…

— Ai Weiwei

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...

— Sigfried Giedion

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

— Sigfried Giedion

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some…

— Ai Weiwei

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond…

— Arshile Gorky

Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future.…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one…

— Pablo Picasso

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

— Jonathan Lethem

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

— Yoko Ono