Abstract Quote by Julian Schnabel

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in the modern…

— Sean William Scott

'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The…

— Richard Diebenkorn

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

— Joaquin Phoenix

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

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

— Claes Oldenburg

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

— David Hockney

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

— Ad Reinhardt

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you....

— Jackson Pollock

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

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

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

— James Acaster