Dissolving Quote by Francesca DiMattio

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from…

— Robert Smithson

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

— Sam Francis

Over the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested in how…

— Olafur Eliasson

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that…

— Joe Bradley

One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space…

— Mary Heilmann

My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind…

— Jasper Johns

When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation…

— Georges Braque

I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred…

— Robert Barry

Space is the breath of art.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

— Isamu Noguchi

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

— Willem de Kooning

I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space…

— Stephen Beal