“Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that had a narrative impact. In other words, you could tell a story with the shapes. It wouldn't be a literal story, but the shapes and the interaction of the shapes and colors would give you a narrative sense. You could have a sense of an abstract piece flowing along and being part of an action or activity. That sort of turned me on.” GivingKindStoriesActionSimplePiecesColorActivityShapesImpactNarrativeAbstractInteractionAbstractionCurvesGeometryLiteral Author:Frank Stella
“Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.” FeelsHeartKindMayRealBeautyEnvironmentColorIntellectualDeeperReal LoveCanvasAbstractionMarbleOutlines Book:Literary recreations and miscellanies Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies
“The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.” JobsLevelsColorPhotographerAbstraction Author:Joel Sternfeld
“All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.” DoneAliveColorIndividualityAbstractionEffectivenessTransparencyInclineGeneralitiesSpecificityTransfiguration Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.” IfsTryingKnowingFocusSeeingMovementColorShapesAreasVicesAcquireRepresentationAbstractionSelectVice VersaKnowing EverythingAmalgamation Author:Olivo Barbieri