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  • 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.

    Art   Yellow   Doe  
    "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants", Vol. II, by Jean Dubuffet, Gallimard, Paris, (p. 206), 1967.
  • Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.

    Art   Talking   Cognition  
    Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”
  • The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

    Art   Years   Fifty  
    Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.53, Univ of California Press
  • Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.

    Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”
  • 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.

    Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”
  • The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

    Art   War   Keys  
    "Age of unreason". Interview with Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.
  • Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.

    Art   Play   Squares  
    Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.
  • Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

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

    Art   Eye   Imagination  
  • 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.

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

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

    Art   Order   Abstract  
  • 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.

    Art   Guitar   Drawing  
  • Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

    Brenda Danilowitz, Josef Albers, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (2001). “The prints of Josef Albers: a catalogue raisonné, 1915-1976”, Hudson Hills
  • Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

    Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.147, Univ of California Press
  • I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

    Interview, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 1950
  • The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

    Motivational   Art   Real  
  • Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

    In National Observer 1 July 1963
  • Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things. ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?

  • What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

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

    Art   Jewels   Waiting  
  • 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.

    Art   Expression   Color  
  • 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.

    Art   Hungry   Thirsty  
  • In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

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

    Art   Simple   Order  
    Jan Tschichold (1967). “Asymmetric Typography”, New York : Reinhold Publishing Corporation
  • There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art.

    Song   Art   Writing  
  • Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.

    Art   Reality   Ideas  
    "Conversation avec Picasso". Interview with Christian Zervos, Cahiers d'Art, Volume X, No. 7-10 (pp. 173-178), 1935; later quoted in Richard Friedenthal "Letters of the Great Artists From Blake to Pollock" translated by Daphne Woodward (pp. 256-257), 1963.
  • Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his visual impressions. A realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.

    Art   Mean   Differences  
    "Richard Diebenkorn".
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