Abstraction Quote by Max Beckmann

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

— Claes Oldenburg

The idea is more important than the object.

— Damien Hirst

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

— Adrian Forty

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

— Isabel Paterson

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

— Paul Cezanne

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually…

— Flannery O'Connor

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz

If something is done without objectifying, it can be beautiful.

— Roop Durgapal

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

— John Dewey