Abstract Quote by Marcel Duchamp

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

— David Hockney

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

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

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

— Amy Sillman

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

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

— Russell Chatham

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in…

— Francis Bacon

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people

— Edgar Degas

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

— Joe Bradley

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake