Abstraction Quote by Hans Werner Henze

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

— Paul Cezanne

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

— David Hockney

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

— Robert Crumb

An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic…

— Betty Edwards

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

— Marc Davis

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

— Henry Moore

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible…

— Chuck Jones

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

— Ken Danby

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without…

— Diego Rivera

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

— Jerry Saltz

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— Sigfried Giedion