#Abstract

"Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty."

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

"Sometimes a symbol holds more power than the thing it represents. Like the symbol for Thing, the one I created that is confusing and abstract and makes people ask, What is that thing? And I always reply, “If you already knew, why did you ask?"

"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."

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

"My brain is divided into two butterflies, and both are in love with your rose-shaped heart. If you've got the garden, I've got my whole life."

"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."

"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."