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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Jerry Saltz

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

— Jerry Saltz

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

— Jackson Pollock

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

— Sol LeWitt

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

— Max Bill

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

— Jackson Pollock

When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.

— Corita Kent

I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.

— Piet Mondrian

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Pablo Picasso

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.

— Piet Mondrian