Abstract Quote by Steven Whitney

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

— Joshua L. Goldberg

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

— Robert Reynolds

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

— Georges Seurat

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to…

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

— Harold Rosenberg

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

— Carl Andre

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly…

— Joshua L. Goldberg

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the…

— Anonymous

Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting.…

— Gerhard Richter

A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and not so…

— Edward Ruscha