Abstract Quote by Ellen Hunnicutt

It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with…

— Peter Kreeft

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

— Wassily Kandinsky

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

— Morris Kline

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

— C. S. Lewis

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

— Theo van Doesburg

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

— James Acaster

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this…

— Richard Diebenkorn

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

— Jean Helion

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond…

— Arshile Gorky

The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.

— John Bargh

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his…

— Richard Diebenkorn

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