Abstract Quote by Robert Motherwell

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment...

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

— Yann Martel

All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind ,…

— Joseph Conrad

There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be…

— Steven Soderbergh

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...

— Sigfried Giedion

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

— Robert Motherwell

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

— Robert Henri

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

— Anton Ehrenzweig

... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“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