“All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.”
“Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human.”
“The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.”
“Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”
“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.”
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”