Abstract Quote by Pablo Picasso

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

— Ben Shahn

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

— Willem de Kooning

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

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

— Elliot W. Eisner

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially…

— Lucien Smith

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

— Wassily Kandinsky

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

— Milford Zornes

Art is nothing without form.

— Gustave Flaubert

Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by…

— Pablo Picasso

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Pablo Picasso

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

— Matthew Collings