Abstract Quote by Jonas Mekas

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or…

— Jackson Pollock

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

— Chris Martin

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you…

— Jackson Pollock

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso”

— Edward B. Burger

All good art is abstract.

— John Newman

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to…

— Salvador Dali

I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack.…

— Dennis Hopper

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

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one…

— Pablo Picasso

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

— Amy Sillman