"I understand abstract art as an attempt to……" — Jean Helion
"I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes."
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11 Quotes by Jean Helion
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A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the…
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A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by…
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You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.
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All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order…
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Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer…
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The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but…
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Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys.…
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Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to…
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Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.
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No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching…
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More Abstract Quotes
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one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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