Abstract Quote by Ralph Gibson

so full of shapes is fancy

— William Shakespeare

I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and…

— Olivo Barbieri

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

— Willem de Kooning

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

I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's…

— Pipilotti Rist

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total…

— Richard Diebenkorn

What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

— Kerry James Marshall

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

— Charles James

The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical…

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

— William Shakespeare

I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel…

— Bibhu Mohapatra

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

— Martina McBride