Abstract Quote by Robert Reynolds

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship…

— Ben Nicholson

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

— Gustave Courbet

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Anything can be painted without representation.

— Agnes Martin

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet

My art is representational by choice…if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

— Jules Olitski

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.

— Steven Whitney

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language,…

— Gustave Courbet

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in…

— Francis Bacon