Abstract Quote by Hans Hofmann

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

— Ellsworth Kelly

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...

— Sigfried Giedion

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

— Max Weber

... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize…

— Edmund Blair Bolles

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.

— George Boole

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms

— Marcus Aurelius

We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple,…

— David Hume

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

— Claes Oldenburg

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static…

— Alan Perlis

Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I…

— Gerhard Richter

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same…

— Paul Klee