Abstract Quote by Flannery O'Connor

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

— Claes Oldenburg

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

— Ben Shahn

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

— Stephen Dunn

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

— Joaquin Phoenix

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

In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection…

— Abraham Maslow

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content…

— Naum Gabo

“Idea is an abstract concept human physically created.”

— Joey Lawsin

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

— Max Beckmann

The idea is more important than the object.

— Damien Hirst

...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