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
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. — Frank Stella 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
“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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. — Marcel Duchamp 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
“There are so many other wonderful things that eyes could see if they really focused. Life's kind of like a painting. A… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised… — Dore Ashton Copy Share Image
