Abstraction Quote by Max Bill

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

— Juan Gris

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

— Theo van Doesburg

We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a…

— Hans Arp

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in…

— Edith Stein

The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was]…

— Willem de Kooning

“In learning, we draw an abstraction from concrete objects and events. In creating, we make our own concrete objects and events out of the…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Stephen Dunn

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

Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility…

— Mark Kingwell

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore

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

— Pablo Picasso

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic,…

— Marc Chagall