Abstract Quote by Claes Oldenburg

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

— James Acaster

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

— Thomas Heatherwick

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

— Brice Marden

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy…

— Joe Bradley

I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.

— Julian Schnabel

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

— Pablo Picasso

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

— Jean Helion

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

— Stephen Wright

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another…

— Roy Lichtenstein

I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in the modern…

— Sean William Scott

What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point, and you…

— Julian Schnabel