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Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

— Joni Mitchell

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

— Don DeLillo

“If the West once undermined and helped to ultimately defeat the USSR by uniting free market economics, cool culture, and democratic politics into one…

— Peter Pomerantsev

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

— Robert Motherwell

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

— Cecil Balmond

With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't…

— Jackson Pollock

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and…

— Jerry Saltz

“History is ending because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley, and as the inevitable chaostrophie approaches, people look…

— Terence McKenna

I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too uptight, you're…

— Paul Laffoley

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism -…

— Andy Warhol

“In 1972, Bayber's work underwent another metamorphosis, yet refused to be defined by or adhere to any specific style. Elements of abstract expressionism, modernism,…

— Tracy Guzeman

But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The…

— Romare Bearden

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained…

— LeRoy Neiman

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known…

— Henry Flynt

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey