Abstract Quote by Hans Hofmann

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

— Jean Helion

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one…

— Pablo Picasso

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control…

— Lawren Harris

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

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to…

— Salvador Dali

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

— Keaton Stromberg

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this…

— Richard Diebenkorn

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond…

— Arshile Gorky

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more…

— Jean Dubuffet

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in…

— Francis Bacon