emotional abstraction Quotes

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or rather it's about feelings in the abstract.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

Hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety - the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy - the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis of all possible implications of both getting up from the couch and not getting up from the couch.

By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.