Abstract

By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction. (Umberto Eco)

Abstract literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is...

We are lightened when our gifts rise from pools we cannot fathom. Then we know they are not a solitary egotism and they are inexhaustible. (Lewis...

You can't look at abstract art without thinking. (Patricia Cole-Ferullo)

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades...

If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you...

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion. (T. S. Eliot)

It is fascinating that all kinds of moods can result in really good works... not just during the highs or "on a roll" moods. Surrender to...

Agonies thrilled through me as if my blood were running ice cold in my veins. I stopped composing. My mind became feebler as my feelings grew...

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks...