Abstract Quote by Bjarke Ingels

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic,…

— Marc Chagall

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

— Claes Oldenburg

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or…

— Lee Krasner

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

— Joaquin Phoenix

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

— Ben Shahn

I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really abstract shapes.…

— John Newman

I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

— Robert Ryman

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Jerry Saltz

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

— Ellsworth Kelly

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content…

— Naum Gabo