Dedication Quote by Glenn Ligon

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

— Sean Scully

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

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

— Sigfried Giedion

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly…

— Joshua L. Goldberg

My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent what is…

— Freydoon Rassouli

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship…

— Ben Nicholson

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

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…

— Joe Bradley

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

— Brice Marden

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

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without…

— Diego Rivera