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

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

"Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable."
Robert Motherwell

"Abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality."
Piet Mondrian

"One of the most striking aspects of abstract art is its capacity to redefine perception and create a dialogue between the art and the viewer."
Mark Rothko

"Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world."
Wassily Kandinsky

"Abstraction allows people to see with their mind what they cannot see physically with their eyes."
Georges Braque

"The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real."
Lucian Freud

"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."
Arshile Gorky