Abstract Quote by Daniel Tosh

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you....

— Jackson Pollock

The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and…

— John Lurie

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

— John Mellencamp

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 didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack.…

— Dennis Hopper

“Painted Things I love my work and take pains with it. But today I find the slow pace of composition discouraging. The weather has…

— Constantinos P. Cavafis

Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it…

— Barry Hannah

Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly…

— Ben Schnetzer

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

— David Hockney

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of…

— Wayne Thiebaud

I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's…

— Shea Hembrey

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…

— Jackson Pollock