Abstraction Quote by Sean Scully

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond…

— Arshile Gorky

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

— Sigfried Giedion

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore

Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned…

— Sigfried Giedion

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

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Sigfried Giedion

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a…

— Brice Marden

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

— Anton Ehrenzweig