Abstraction Quote by Jerry Saltz

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz

Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned…

— Sigfried Giedion

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

— Sigfried Giedion

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by…

— Sigfried Giedion

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report…

— Andreas Gursky

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

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

— Lewis Mumford

Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a…

— Brice Marden

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

“After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is…

— Piet Hein