Abstract art Quote by Arshile Gorky

“Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind. And mind can only see things that already written in heart.”

— Toba Beta

“You can see things without truly understanding them.”

— Ker Dukey

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

— Jerry Saltz

“Sight is seeing with the eyes; vision is seeing with the mind.”

— Orrin Woodward

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

— Ellsworth Kelly

Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned…

— Sigfried Giedion

“It's the mind that sees, not eyes.”

— Toba Beta

“One does not see with the eyes; one sees with the brain, which has dozens of different systems for analyzing the input from the…

— Oliver Sacks

“See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore

I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.

— Kay WalkingStick

“When the eye sees, it simply registers color and shape. All the rest takes place in the mind.”

— Ayya Khema