Abstract Quote by Elaine Equi

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Ben Shahn

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

— Juan Gris

“The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

— Wassily Kandinsky

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

— Constantin Brancusi

I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

— Robert Ryman

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in…

— Edith Stein

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

— Bjarke Ingels

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

— Gerard Way

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

— Claes Oldenburg