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

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract. — Richard Diebenkorn

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words. — Debasish Mridha

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

Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart. — Debasish Mridha

All great art is abstract. — Jean Renoir

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. — Salvador Dali

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

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

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

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative. — Piet Mondrian

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. — Piet Mondrian

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium. — Piet Mondrian

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

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

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

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

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. — Christopher Willard

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

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

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. — Ellen Key

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

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences. — T.D. Jakes

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

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

Art is only abstract when you look the other way. — Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — Robert Motherwell

Abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. — Piet Mondrian

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. — Dominique De Menil

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

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now. — Paul Klee

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

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. — Jonas Mekas

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers ... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines. — Kay WalkingStick

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody. — Howard Terpning

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. — Pablo Picasso

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. — Marcel Duchamp

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together. — Jennifer Estep

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. — Meyer Schapiro

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes — Mark Rothko

All good art is abstract in its structure. — Paul Strand

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

Art has a voice - let it speak. — Rochelle Carr

All good art is abstract. — John Newman

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell

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

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth. — Milford Zornes

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

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need. — Ai Weiwei

I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract. — Jeffrey Smart