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• Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reaching, Abstraction

• It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino’s work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Romantic, Abstraction

• Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art’s version of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. It’s the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relativity, Abstraction

• Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Visionary, Abstraction

• Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ugliness, Abstraction

• At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space – abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Abstraction

• Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Abstraction

• Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

  George John Boole

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Culture, Premature, Abstraction

• I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

  Lena Dunham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Abstraction

• Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. [And] if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.

  William Manchester

  Topics in Age, Country, Funny

  Tags in Men, Abstraction, Glory

• Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

  Dylan Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Abstraction, Washington

• Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

  Josef Albers

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Abstraction, Comparison

• Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Abstraction, Thinking, Mankind

• From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Religious, Abstraction, Necessity

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Abstraction, Realism, Abstract