Abstract Art Quotes

Abstract Art Quote of the day

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

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.

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

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.

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

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

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

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

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.

If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

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

We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

All good art is abstract.

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"

Philosophy is the abstract art of thoughts and perceptions that form colors of words and languages that paint the canvas of our minds.

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am

Before, I could only guess oh who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am.

Thanks to my art, I now know who I am.

Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past.

Art has a voice - let it speak.