Abstract Quote by Wassily Kandinsky

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

— Piet Mondrian

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

— Ben Nicholson

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

— Pablo Picasso

“Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average…

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Edward B. Burger

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

— Henry Moore

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

— Andre Maurois

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

— Mike Svob

I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of…

— Antoni Tapies

“The nature of a work of art is to be not a part, nor yet a copy of the real world but a world…

— A.C. Bradley

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

— Jean Helion

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault