Abstract Quote by Robert Longo

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is…

— Jonas Mekas

Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything,…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with…

— Zaha Hadid

I had to find a way to paint abstractly, which is what I wanted to do. I couldn't forget Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich…

— Frank Stella

There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity.…

— John Berger

“The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and…

— Neville Weston

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

— Carl Andre

A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and not so…

— Edward Ruscha

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

— Sigfried Giedion

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

— Constantin Brancusi