Abstract Quote by Henri Poincare

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

— Sigfried Giedion

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who…

— Antonio Damasio

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

— Ellsworth Kelly

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

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there,…

— Chuck Close

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic,…

— Marc Chagall

Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing…

— Gaston Bachelard

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

— Elvis Presley

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

— Constantin Brancusi

Human perception is literally incarnation.

— Marshall McLuhan

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

— Elvis Presley