Abstract Quote by John Newman

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content…

— Naum Gabo

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

— Willem de Kooning

I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and…

— Olivo Barbieri

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

— Bjarke Ingels

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the…

— Milton Avery

Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that…

— Frank Stella

I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

— Robert Ryman

If I have a blank piece of paper and I draw a red figure, immediately this brings sounds and shapes to my mind. I…

— Alex Abreu

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

— Taliesin

I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes...

— David Hockney

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at…

— Lucinda Childs