Abstract Quote by Dennis Hopper

These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the…

— Brice Marden

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey

When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done. I did…

— Georg Baselitz

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

I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached it from…

— Billy Zane

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised…

— Georg Baselitz

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

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

— Brice Marden

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained…

— LeRoy Neiman

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

— Dennis Hopper

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