Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
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… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it.… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
I'm not so interested in this series of ruptures, where minimalism took over pop art, and then neo-expressionism was a triumph over… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted'… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use -… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
“Picasso’s eclecticism signifies the deliberate destruction of the unity of the personality; his imitations are protests against the cult of originality; his… — Arnold Hauser Copy Share Image
“I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers… — Claire Amber Copy Share Image
Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I… — Philip Pearlstein 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
I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
For example, in England, we teach about Expressionism, but it is not the same in England as it is in Germany, because… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep… — Hermann Bahr Copy Share Image
Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is… — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
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