"Abstraction allows man to see with his mind……" — Arshile Gorky
"Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas."
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Arshile Gorky
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16 Quotes by Arshile Gorky
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I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.
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Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.
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We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of…
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The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.
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I do not paint in front of but from within nature.
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Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.
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The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the…
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The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations,…
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When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting -…
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Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.
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If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.
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I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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