Abstract Quote by Claes Oldenburg

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

— Ben Shahn

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

— Stephen Dunn

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

— Juan Gris

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

— Joaquin Phoenix

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

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which…

— Ben Shahn

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

— Max Beckmann

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

— Bjarke Ingels

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Ad Reinhardt

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or…

— Lee Krasner

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

— John Green