Abstract Quote by Ellsworth Kelly

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

“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.”

— Arshile Gorky

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

— Stephen Dunn

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

— Ben Shahn

I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the…

— Giorgio Morandi

Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made…

— Herbert Marcuse

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

— Gerard Way

I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.

— Jeffrey Smart

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

— Claes Oldenburg

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Ad Reinhardt