Abstract Quote by Pierre Alechinsky

When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is…

— Philip Guston

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you....

— Jackson Pollock

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

— Jan Tschichold

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

— Jerry Saltz

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control…

— Lawren Harris

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or…

— Jackson Pollock

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

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

— Chris Martin

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea…

— Joseph Plaskett

Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one…

— Pablo Picasso

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

— Amy Sillman