Abstract Quote by Herbert Marcuse

The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.

— Ad Reinhardt

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

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

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

— Ben Shahn

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

— C. S. Lewis

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a…

— Tom G. Palmer

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

— Stephen Dunn

I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They think in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in…

— Edith Stein

...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

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a…

— Joseph Joubert