Abstract Quote by Joseph Joubert

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

— Joseph Joubert

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

— Ben Shahn

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

Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made…

— Herbert Marcuse

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

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

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

— Joaquin Phoenix

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

— Gerard Way

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl