Colour Quote by Mark Rothko

“You might as well get one thing straight. I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in the relationships of color or form or anything…

— Mark Rothko

I'm not an abstractionist completely.

— Cy Twombly

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you…

— Phil Collins

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

— Jerry Saltz

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

— Anonymous

Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

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

— Stephen Dunn

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I try to think and design in color.

— Nelson Shanks

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers

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

— Joaquin Phoenix

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

— Kerry James Marshall