Abstract Quote by Paul Klee

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear…

— Daniel B. Shapiro

I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.

— Kay WalkingStick

The language of images [of inner-oriented artists] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more likely to…

— Kenneth Coutts-Smith

“An illustration is an enlargement, and interpretation of the text, so that the reader will comprehend the words better. As an artist, you are…

— Maurice Sendak

...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians…

— Ian Stewart

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

— Jean Helion

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything…

— Henri Matisse

The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the…

— Craig Owens

An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every…

— Charles M. Blow

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to…

— Salvador Dali

“Art lovers collect paintings that demonstrate some form of imperceptible complexity. Abstract images with vague messages and symbols that keep you guessing and wondering…

— Mindy Fordham

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

— Max Weber