Top 1200 Abstract Painting Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

Housing insecurity isn't just an abstract point of policy for me. I've lived it.

When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid color structure, you have to have a solid development in values, dark and light. Second, if you have a good design, don't leave it if you fail to render it to its full extent the first time around. Remember it's the design that's important. Try and try till you get the thing to work. That's why The Pattern Makers is a key picture in my painting career.

In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without using oil colors to avoid any reference with usual painting). These were probably the first manifestations of their kind, pictures that were their own reality, without meaning or cerebral intention. We rejected everything in the nature of a copy or a description, in order to give free flow to what was elemental and spontaneous.

Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick, dizzy, something going berserk in your mind. You cannot go on looking at Picasso's painting long enough. You would like to get away, because the painting has not come from a silent being. It has come from a chaos. It is a by product of a nightmare. But ninety-nine percent art belongs to that category.

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

My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars.

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

My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what her painting isn't, until she finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is; you're off and running.

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.

You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

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

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

After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.

I wanted to be a visual artist, but I realized I was more affected by what I read than by what I saw. I would go to a show at a museum and look at a painting and say, 'Oh I wish I owned that,' and that would be the end of my relationship with a painting. With a short story I would read or with an author I would discover I could be haunted. It would affect my mood and affect the way that I saw the world. I thought, wow, it would be amazing to be able to do that.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

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

I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.

My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.

When Sean and I are old, we're just going to compose weird abstract symphonies.

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

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

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it.

The world will not give you an endowment for your finger-painting. Your finger-painting may be marvelous, but our government and society do not value art adequately. We should fulminate against that and seek to change it, but in the meantime you have to make choices. If you're an artist who likes to have a steady income for yourself, for your children, for your partner, to help you engage in elder care as you take care of your parents or grandparents, that's a good thing.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

I was welding art from my house, making abstract figures out of metal.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

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

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

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

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

What interested me in film was the image-making aspect of it. So, I went to school in cinematography. I was really convinced that image was what I wanted to do, and I think it came from the fact that I lived in a small town my whole life, but my mother was very interested in painting, so she would bring us to Paris for two weeks. So, we're going to the Louvre and to the museums and to see shows. In the evening we were seeing theater. Painting is basically what led me. I think the image was key.