Abstraction Quote by Kay WalkingStick Download Open image “I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.” — Kay WalkingStick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstraction Doe Imagery Inspirational Love
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide, and to… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can.… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
