Abstract Quote by John Green

“The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by René Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then beneath it…

— John Green

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

— John Green

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

— Claes Oldenburg

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

— Ben Shahn

“The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.

— Ad Reinhardt

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

— Stephen Dunn

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on…

— Gerhard Richter

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually…

— Flannery O'Connor

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

— Paul Cezanne

A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

— Jean Cocteau

I'm not an abstractionist completely.

— Cy Twombly