Abstract Quote by Robert Motherwell

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

— Meyer Schapiro

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to…

— Salvador Dali

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

— Robert Motherwell

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 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

“Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

— Piet Mondrian

What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no…

— Louise Bourgeois

“Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.”

— Jan Zwicky

Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises…

— Harold Rosenberg

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

— Jackson Pollock