Abstract Quotes - Page 27

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

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Art, Order, Made

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• Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Perfect, Sublime

  Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

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• Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Art, Lines, Layers

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• But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.

  Romare Bearden

  Thinking, Movement, Jazz

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• The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

  Naum Gabo

  Nature, Lying, Creating

  Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”

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• It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body.

  James Elkins

  Play, Numbers, Leaving

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.49, Routledge

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• I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

  Robert Reynolds

  Strong, Believe, Painting

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• I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you would call straight abstract paintings. And anyway it is so much more exciting trying to find out about the three dimensions of color and sticking it down on a two dimensional surface.

  Euan Uglow

  Color, Two, Trying

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• Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

  Larry Rivers

  Jealousy, Littles, Boring

  Larry Rivers, Marlborough Gallery (2005). “Larry Rivers: paintings and drawings: 1951-2001 ; May 3-June 4, 2005”, Marlborough Gallery

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• Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Art, Reality, Influence

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• Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Art, Looks, Way

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

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• Let your works not be interrupted by the stupidities happening in your own country! Work and walk on your true path ignoring any kind of distractions! Abstract yourself from all the primitivenesses surrounding you! Concentrate on your work!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Stupidity, Path

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• Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

  Chris Martin

  Interesting, Abstract Painting, Painting

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• There is no such thing as abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism... The Sinofication of Marxism - that is, making certain that its manifestation is imbued with Chinese peculiarities - is a problem that must be understood and solved by the party without delay.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Chinese, Delay

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• I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Believe, Laughing

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• It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Thinking, Affair

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.3, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most remote from all useful application, become in the next age the bases of profound physical inquiries, and in the succeeding one, perhaps, by proper simplification and reduction to tables, furnish their ready and daily aid to the artist and the sailor.

  Charles Babbage

  Artist, Profound, Age

  Charles Babbage, Peter Mark Roget (1989). “Reflections on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes: with a new appendix of correspondence by Charles Babbage & Peter M. Roget from the Philosophical magazine”

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• I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached it from a physical standpoint, but I've also been honing my compositional eye through film.

  Billy Zane

  Falling In Love, Eye, Hands

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

  Steve Jobs

  Powerful, Thinking, Impact

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• I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Opportunity, Justice

  "Dune Genesis" by Frank Herbert , Omni, Vol. 2, No. 2 (p. 72), July 1980.

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• But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value; just as logic has its own peculiar truth and value, independently of the subjects to which we may apply its reasonings and processes.

  Ada Lovelace

  Peculiar, May, Logic

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• The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

  Ada Lovelace

  Numbers, Peculiar, Operations

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• I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because it seemed so abstract to me.

  Kevin Morby

  Thinking, Play, Wanted

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen.

  Jenny Hval

  Stuff, Back And Forth

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

  Jenny Hval

  Ideas, Interesting, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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