Abstract Quote by Carlo Carra

The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A…

— Beauford Delaney

A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.

— Swami Vivekananda

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

— Wassily Kandinsky

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of…

— Jean Piaget

There's a kind of passionate expression in all my pieces. It's just that the nature of the expression takes different forms.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when…

— Amy Lowell

The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than…

— Anonymous

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

— Pablo Picasso

“When we find ourselves in a difficult situation of any sort, there are often two “easy” choices: passive submission and violent resistance. They are…

— Vironika Tugaleva

The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which…

— Isaac Newton

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

— Blaise Pascal