Best Abstract Art Quotes
- It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one… — Robert Motherwell
- Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world. — Wassily Kandinsky
- Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson
- We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... — Asger Jorn
- Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout. — Lawren Harris
- I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression… — Richard Schmid
- We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative… — Salvador Dali
- There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. — Pablo Picasso
- I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art.… — Steven Wright
- Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp
- I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like… — Roy Lichtenstein