Abstract Quote by Christopher Willard

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

— Paul Gauguin

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

— Damien Hirst

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must…

— Charles F Kettering

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of…

— Hans Hofmann

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

— Beverly Pepper

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially…

— Lucien Smith

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

— Anonymous

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

...if I can do it, it's not art.

— Rudy Giuliani

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

— Cindy Sherman

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

— Julia Cameron