Abstract Quote by Giacomo Balla

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

— Willem de Kooning

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

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

— Ben Shahn

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural…

— Richard Serra

We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as…

— Paul Klee

We build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physical plane.

— Emmet Fox

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

— Claes Oldenburg

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

— Benvenuto Cellini

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we…

— Christopher Alexander

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large…

— Alexander Calder

Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much…

— Hans Bender

The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is…

— Said Nursi