I never had the… common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given ‘meaning. — Robert Motherwell
Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form. — Anton Ehrenzweig
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. — Robert Breault
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes. — Arshile Gorky
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn
Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract — Fyodor Dostoevsky