Abstraction Quote by F. Sionil Jose

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

— Brice Marden

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

— Marianne Moore

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

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore

“You paint from your subject, not what you see…I rarely paint anything I don’t know very well. It was surprising to me to see…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy…

— Joe Bradley

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report…

— Andreas Gursky

Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment…

— Emmet Gowin

There are so many different ways to talk and think about art. We just spoke about when attitude becomes form. But when I was…

— David Salle

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon