Abstraction Quote by Olivo Barbieri

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

The abstracting of visual elements in order to recognize their particularity has become automatic, but seeing, combining, and creating them as integrated 'wholes' will…

— Freeman Patterson

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

— Andre Kertesz

I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity.

— Martina McBride

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the…

— Milton Avery

If I have a blank piece of paper and I draw a red figure, immediately this brings sounds and shapes to my mind. I…

— Alex Abreu

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

— Bjarke Ingels

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

— Willem de Kooning

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a…

— Clement Greenberg

I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the…

— Dorothy Height

In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.

— Francesca DiMattio