Abstract Quote by Joan Mitchell

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

— Juan Gris

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

— Theo van Doesburg

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

— Bjarke Ingels

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

— Willem de Kooning

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Ben Shahn

The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was]…

— Willem de Kooning

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

— Stephen Wright

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

When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is…

— Philip Guston

The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A…

— Beauford Delaney

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy…

— Joe Bradley