Picture Abstract Quotes

#1. I've always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they're still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that's not well organized upside down, it won't work.

William Eggleston

#2. 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 both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements.

Marc Chagall

#3. Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Jerry Saltz

#4. Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm,

Tomas Transtromer

#5. To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.

Piet Mondrian

#6. My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.

Andrew Wyeth

#7. I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it.

Bob Dylan

#8. The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.

Bill Vaughan

#9. A picture is not a window ... an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

Jean Cocteau

#10. Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

Max Beckmann