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“Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.”

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Author:Robert Longo

“No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.”

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Book:The nude: a study in ideal form

Source: The nude: a study in ideal form

“The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.”

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Author:Kenneth Tynan

“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.”

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Author:Pablo Picasso

“I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.”

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Author:Claes Oldenburg

“Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!”

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Author:Carl Andre

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

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Book:Picasso and Man

Source: Picasso and Man

“Every good painter paints what he is.”

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Book:Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting

Source: Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting

“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.”

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Author:Jackson Pollock

“I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.”

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Author:Steven Wright

“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.”

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Book:The prints of Josef Albers: a catalogue raisonné, 1915-1976

Source: The prints of Josef Albers: a catalogue raisonné, 1915-1976

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

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Author:Al Capp

“There is no must in art because art is free.”

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Book:Concerning the spiritual in art

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art

“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.”

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Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.”

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Author:Kenneth Tynan

“In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.”

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Author:Bob Blumer

“There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art.”

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Author:Laura Nyro

“There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art. ... A lot of my songs are very serious, I'm like dead serious about certain things and I feel that I'm writing about the world, through my own eyes. ... I have a love for simple basic song structure, although sometimes you'd never know it. ... Most of the songs I wrote at night. I would just wake in the middle of the night. That's when I found the space to write.”

“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.”

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Author:Etel Adnan

“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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Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.”

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Book:Jackson Pollock

Source: Jackson Pollock

“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.”

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Author:Jackson Pollock

“One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.”

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Author:Robert Motherwell

“I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.”

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Author:Jean Helion

“Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.”

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Book:The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination

Source: The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination

“Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.”

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Author:Robert Genn

“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas.”

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Author:Arshile Gorky

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

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Author:Robert Breault

“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.”

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Author:Salvador Dali

“The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.”

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Book:Asymmetric Typography

Source: Asymmetric Typography

“Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.”

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Author:Donald Judd

“Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.”

“Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.”

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Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.”

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Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.”

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Author:Dominique de Menil

“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.”

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Author:Salvador Dali

“In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.”

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Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“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 surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.”

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Author:J. G. Ballard

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