Abstract Quote by Arshile Gorky

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

— Jean Helion

Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion…

— Robert Genn

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

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control…

— Lawren Harris

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this…

— Richard Diebenkorn

The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was]…

— Willem de Kooning

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his…

— Richard Diebenkorn

'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

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore

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

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

— Sean Scully