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For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much…
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In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.
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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
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One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
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Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he…
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Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends…
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Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound,…
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In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the…
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Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
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The main thing is not to be dead.
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Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
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To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.
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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…
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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…
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
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The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an…
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Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.
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Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.
— Robert Motherwell
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Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War…
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
— Aaron Huey
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We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract…
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