Abstract Quote by Lawren Harris

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

— Jean Helion

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

— Jean Cocteau

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

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

— Richard Wagner

Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises…

— Harold Rosenberg

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

— Jackson Pollock

Art is a form of consciousness.

— Susan Sontag

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of…

— Hans Hofmann

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is…

— Philip Guston