Abstraction Quote by Jean Helion

The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.

— Andy Grundberg

“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.”

— Arshile Gorky

Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it…

— John Ruskin

When we have our consciousness on needs, images come to us, naturally, of how to meet those needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“You will benefit if you devotionally view the one who has both stillness in his eyes and a contented state of chit (internal component…

— Dada Bhagwan

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

— Oskar Kokoschka

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to…

— Ernst Haas

This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Vision motivates, sustains and dispels doubt.

— Thomas Young

The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or…

— Pierre Reverdy

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than…

— Ernst Haas

I see my work as having a relationship to the visual world, not just some emotive residue of my feelings. It relates to something…

— Elizabeth Neel