Abstract Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

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

All good art is abstract in its structure.

— Paul Strand

All good art is abstract.

— John Newman

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

— Zaha Hadid

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against…

— Frank Stella

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

— Balthus

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

— Chris Martin

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in…

— Francis Bacon

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially…

— Lucien Smith

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

— Jan Tschichold