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Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

— Piet Mondrian

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Jerry Saltz

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

— Salvador Dali

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

— Jackson Pollock

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

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

— ASAP Ferg

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

— Paul Cezanne

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

— Mark Rothko

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

— Jil Sander

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Pablo Picasso

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

— Hans Hofmann