Abstract Quote by Max Beckmann

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

— Constantin Brancusi

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

— Pablo Picasso

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

— Eric Cantona

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

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the…

— Constantin Brancusi

I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really abstract shapes.…

— John Newman

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

— Piet Mondrian

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

— Lucian Freud

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

— Mark Rothko

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

— Jean Helion

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

— Ben Nicholson

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

— Juan Gris