"I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all……" — Gerhard Richter

"I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was never really a conscious decision. It was simply a question of desire. In fact, I really prefer making figurative work, but the figure is difficult. So to work around the difficulty I take a break and paint abstractly. Which I really like, by the way, because it allows me to make beautiful paintings."

— Gerhard Richter

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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. — Josef Albers
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. — Sarah Caldwell
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra
Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,… — Leo Buscaglia
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of… — Evelyn Underhill
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor… — Emma Goldman
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. — Paul Gauguin
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal… — George Boole
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a… — Alexander Hamilton

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