Abstract Quote by Robert Ryman

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

— Joaquin Phoenix

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

— Claes Oldenburg

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the…

— Constantin Brancusi

I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is more about…

— James Turrell

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means…

— Max Beckmann

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

— Bjarke Ingels

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

— Gerard Way

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

— Juan Gris

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

— Ben Shahn

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

— Constantin Brancusi

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic,…

— Marc Chagall

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers