Abstract Quote by Brice Marden

I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing…

— Dennis Hopper

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

— Andy Warhol

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work…

— Mark Edward

A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and not so…

— Edward Ruscha

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

— Robert Motherwell

The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room for style.…

— Alex Katz

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New…

— Vera Wang

It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something,…

— Mos Def

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art,

— Daniel Alarcon

There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society. Previously there…

— Lawrence Weiner

“I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters,”

— Pete Hamill