Abstract Quote by Chuck Close

You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

— Thomas Dreier

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

— Henry Adams

The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What…

— Jeanloup Sieff

I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time.…

— Waka Flocka Flame

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

— Gary Snyder

Those things are inextricable bound up in my mind, with words I make an image and vice versa.

— Jan Theuninck

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

— Shana Alexander

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

— Ellsworth Kelly

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

— Amy Sillman

When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the…

— Joseph Campbell

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

— William Eggleston

I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at…

— Gerhard Richter