Abstract Quote by Derek R. Audette

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

— Ad Reinhardt

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

— Sherwood Anderson

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 have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we…

— Andrea Bocelli

In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if…

— F. Sionil Jose

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

“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather…

— Aaron Copland

When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.

— Marianne Moore

“Art does what reality cannot.”

— Jayme K

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition,…

— Benjamin Haydon

“It is so wearisome having to represent things. That is why I refuse to look at abstract art. It is much too suggestive of…

— Bauvard

“Only someone who doesn’t understand art tells an artist their art somehow failed. How the fuck can art fail? Art can’t be graded, because…

— Kevin Smith