Painting abstract figurative versus abstraction

I paint now in a more abstract manner. When I was younger (thirty years ago) I stopped doing pure abstract canvases as I felt that they remained on a "decorative" level. By including the human figure or rendering earth landscapes in an abstract figurative mode I thought then that they would elicit stronger reactions from the viewer. Now I feel the desire to paint abstractions which to me, like music, convey mood, rhythms, tones of color, ambience and reach one's spirit effortlessly , JULIO CREWS