Abstract Quote by Ellen Goodman

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

— Wassily Kandinsky

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

— Sandra Bernhard

I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from…

— Sam Richardson

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

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 attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children.…

— Beatrice M. Hinkle

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up…

— John Dyer

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

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her…

— Beck

My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation.

— Hilton Als

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age…

— John Dyer