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Tag Name "Abstract" (592)

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Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).
Jerry Saltz
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Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem it does not require a belief in abstract entities.
Tom G. Palmer
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abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.
Piet Mondrian
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Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.
Robert Breault
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
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Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.
Joni Mitchell
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Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!
Lewis Carroll
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Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.
Wassily Kandinsky
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Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.
Julian Jaynes
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Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.
Harold Rosenberg
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Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.
Bertrand Russell
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Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.
Frank Stella
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
Eric Maisel
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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.
Etel Adnan
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Abstract truth is the eye of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Richard Diebenkorn
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Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.
Adrienne Monnier
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Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.
Boaz Lavie
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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
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Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.
Daniel H. Pink
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