Art is an abstract Colobus monkey

The danger of defining abstract art

We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are. The wonderful thing about thinking visually is that it is so far away from tenebrism to just think artsy.

witty monkey image

A limitation in coping with abstraction presents the greatest barrier to doing mathematics.

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.

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"The signs of language transgress abstraction's code of ineffable silence and unreadability."

The sentiments expressed by this face are precisely that demand for empathy which modernist abstraction had to renounce.

Abstract art is subjective

Art is ultimately subjective, so that regardless of how "good" or "bad" we are told it must be, we must had some fun with it.