Abstraction Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

— Paul Cezanne

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

“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

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

— Robert Genn

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore

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

— Brice Marden

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

— Stephen Dunn

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore

In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the…

— Tony Hoare

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes…

— Georgia O'Keeffe