Abstract Quote by Cecil Balmond

The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.

— Ad Reinhardt

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

— Wassily Kandinsky

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual.…

— Ellen Hunnicutt

Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made…

— Herbert Marcuse

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this…

— Richard Diebenkorn

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

— Ben Shahn

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his…

— Richard Diebenkorn

'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The…

— Richard Diebenkorn

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

— Milford Zornes

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic,…

— Marc Chagall