Abstract Quote by Salvador Dali

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of…

— Hans Hofmann

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

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

— Pablo Picasso

All good art is abstract.

— John Newman

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

— Edward B. Burger

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

All good art is abstract in its structure.

— Paul Strand

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

— Robert Motherwell

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

— Piet Mondrian

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

— Chris Martin

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

— Jean Helion

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

— Lawren Harris