Abstract Quote by Robert Breault

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Jean Helion

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

— Ben Nicholson

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

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if…

— F. Sionil Jose

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

“Art is a true aesthetic synthesis , "a priori" of feeling and image in the intuition, as to which it may be repeated that…

— Benedetto Croce

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

— Langdon Brown Gilkey

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in…

— Henri Bergson

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of…

— Hans Hofmann