Nonobjective Quotes

The principal element of Suprematism in painting, as in architecture, is its liberation from all social or materialist tendencies. Through Suprematism art comes into its pure and unpolluted form. It has acknowledged the decisive fact of the nonobjective character of sensibility. It is no longer concerned with illusion. (Kazimir Malevich)
Everything is contemplated in the mind without meditation. We make a very complicated response. Just to look at a floating branch evokes very complicated objective and nonobjective responses. The artist must slow all this down, mentally. It is this mental experience that makes the representation of beauty possible. View quote
Agnes Martin
Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection... My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think. View quote
Agnes Martin
The Minimalists were nonobjective. They just recorded beauty, I guess, without the emotions - or at least without personal emotions. My work is a little more emotional than that. View quote
Agnes Martin
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. View quote
Jackson Pollock