Abstract Quote by Brice Marden

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

— Stephen Wright

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy…

— Joe Bradley

I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.

— Julian Schnabel

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you....

— Jackson Pollock

I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in the modern…

— Sean William Scott

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

— Claes Oldenburg

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

— David Hockney

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I…

— Willem de Kooning

In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if…

— F. Sionil Jose

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore