Abstraction Quote by Paul Cezanne

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Painting taught literature to describe.

— Orhan Pamuk

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

— Edgar Degas

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship…

— Ben Nicholson

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the…

— Claes Oldenburg

Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms,…

— Alexander Eliot

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become…

— Robert Motherwell

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in…

— Francisco Goya

I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas…

— Hilton Als