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Abstraction Quotes by Jerry Saltz
- Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
- Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
- Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
- It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed…
- Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights…
More Abstraction Quotes
- Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. — Josef Albers
- That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. — Sarah Caldwell
- Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne
- So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra
- Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often… — Leo Buscaglia
- The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's… — Evelyn Underhill
- The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that… — Emma Goldman
- The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian
- Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. — Paul Gauguin
- The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe
- Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the… — George Boole
- It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of… — Alexander Hamilton