Abstract Quote by Jean Helion

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control…

— Lawren Harris

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

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion…

— Robert Genn

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another…

— Roy Lichtenstein

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

— Piet Mondrian

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of…

— Hans Hofmann

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

— James Acaster

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this…

— Richard Diebenkorn

Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one…

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Robert Breault