Abstract Quotes - Page 3

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.

Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it. I want to stay connected to them rather than to an abstract brand.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.