Abstract Quote by Carl Andre

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have…

— Russell Smith

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

— Piet Mondrian

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

— Ben Nicholson

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

— Joseph Stalin

Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less…

— Benito Mussolini

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso”

— Edward B. Burger

Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain…

— Alain Badiou

“Morally, there was the extreme disappointment at the failure of the classical socialist ideal. The great ideal of Marxism had failed to materialize. The…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“...Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism,...”

— John Fowles

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