Abstract Quote by Harold Rosenberg

“The psychology of the unconscious and abstract art, two groundbreaking ideas of the early twentieth century, were actually close cousins, with a common ancestor…

— Damion Searls

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist…

— Caspar David Friedrich

If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the nearest thing…

— Susan Sontag

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

— Robert Bresson

Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most…

— Robert Breault

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault

The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff…

— Kathleen Hanna

I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables…

— Jean Cocteau

We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition...

— Asger Jorn

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his…

— 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