Abstract Painting

Famous quotes containing the words abstract and/or painting:

“The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.”
—Edwin Landseer (1802–1873)