Abstract Quote by Richard Diebenkorn

'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The…

— Richard Diebenkorn

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this…

— Richard Diebenkorn

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which…

— Ben Shahn

The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was]…

— Willem de Kooning

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond…

— Arshile Gorky

Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion…

— Robert Genn

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

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more…

— Jean Dubuffet

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy…

— Joe Bradley

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic,…

— Marc Chagall

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

— Jean Helion

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

— Ben Shahn