Abstract Art Quotes
Abstract art quotes here span genuine debate within the art world, from an artist claiming abstraction effectively ended with Malevich's Black Square, to a defense of abstract art as clearing space for figurative art's return, to a blunter observation that people like abstract art partly because it makes them feel clever. Together they capture both the seriousness and the skepticism surrounding abstraction as a movement.
These abstract art quotes debate abstraction's legacy, from Malevich's Black Square to modern skepticism. For more on artistic craft, see our Art collection.
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.
I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.
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I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.
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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...
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.
I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.
