Abstraction Quote by Kerry James Marshall

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...

— Sigfried Giedion

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

— Richard Russo

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report…

— Andreas Gursky

Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a…

— Brice Marden

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore

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

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

— Paul Cezanne

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

— Susan Sontag

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

— Stephen Dunn

Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned…

— Sigfried Giedion

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore