Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore. — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it. — Stephen Wright Copy Share Image
I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction,… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
“As I’m debating running for the exit, Nash leans down to whisper at my ear. “Is something wrong?” “I feel like the… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you… — Euan Uglow Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
“Nothing is clear now. Something must be the matter with my way of viewing things. I have no middle view. Either I… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Girls are like abstract painting even though you can't understand them , they are still beautiful :P — Me Me Me Copy Share Image
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say,… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it.… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff,… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done.… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
