Abstract Art Quotes
36 quotes by 30 authors
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are…
— Kenneth Tynan
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In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst…
— Bob Blumer
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There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to…
— Laura Nyro
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There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to…
— Laura Nyro
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Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented…
— Etel Adnan
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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
— Jackson Pollock
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One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
— Robert Motherwell
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I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.
— Jean Helion
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Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
— Anton Ehrenzweig
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Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the…
— Arshile Gorky
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Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.
— Robert Breault
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The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
— Jan Tschichold
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Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is…
— Donald Judd
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Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and…
— Robert Genn
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Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need.…
— Robert Motherwell
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What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure…
— Hans Hofmann
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The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it…
— Ad Reinhardt
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But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.
— Dominique de Menil
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