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Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
Anton Ehrenzweig
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.
Ben Shahn
The abstract has no emotional content the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is
Cecil Balmond
Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.
Debasish Mridha
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
Denis Diderot
Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
Gerhard Richter
It abstract art should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
Jackson Pollock
It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
Jim Hodges
The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.
John Bargh
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.
Julian Jaynes
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Lucian Freud
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.
Mike Svob
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
You can’t look at abstract art without thinking.
Patricia Cole
The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment… it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given.
Paul Dirac
Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.
Piet Mondrian
Abstract literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.
Richard Diebenkorn
Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.
Robert A. Heinlein
An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers’ sensitivities into action.
Robert Genn
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life – rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.
Robert Motherwell
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
Roger Scruton
Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.
Rudolf Flesch
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.
Sol Lewitt
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Theodor Adorno
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Theodor Adorno
Even abstract shapes must have a likeness.
Willem de Kooning
