Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.
I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.
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.
I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.
I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.
