Abstract Quote by Eric Cantona

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means…

— Max Beckmann

If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call…

— Eugene J. Martin

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

— Giorgio Morandi

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

— Piet Mondrian

I am not interested in representing reality. Actually, I am interested in representing reality, but that doesn't mean a naturalistic approach, which I think…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

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

— Pablo Picasso

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

— Pablo Picasso

...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

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a…

— Joseph Joubert

It is no longer a matter of expressing reality, but of expressing what one feels about reality.

— Aaron Siskind

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

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the…

— Constantin Brancusi