Abstract Quote by Sean William Scott

I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.

— Julian Schnabel

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

— Brice Marden

'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The…

— Richard Diebenkorn

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

— Mark Rothko

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

— Claes Oldenburg

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Jean Helion

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

— Stephen Wright

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his…

— Richard Diebenkorn

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing…

— Ad Reinhardt

What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in various combinations,…

— Ed Askew

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy…

— Joe Bradley