Abstract Painting Quotes

22 quotes by 19 authors

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes. — Marc Chagall
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the… — Frank Stella
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity… — Wassily Kandinsky
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was… — Igor Stravinsky
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.... — Jackson Pollock
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
Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They… — Gerhard Richter
An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. — Marcel Duchamp
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting.… — Marisha Pessl
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does seem, what the… — Lewis Mumford
I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning. — Robert Motherwell
When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is you… — Philip Guston
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner… — Edward Hopper
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in… — Walter Darby Bannard
I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to… — Joe Bradley
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any… — Jackson Pollock
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture. — Jerry Saltz
life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur.… — Cecelia Ahern
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
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was… — Igor Stravinsky

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