1960s Quote by Jerry Saltz

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

— Robert Motherwell

As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning…

— Arne Glimcher

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

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work…

— Mark Edward

Always remember that the greatest movements in history began with one person and an idea. Look at Martin Luther King and Gandhi, they inspired…

— Corey Lestansky

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New…

— Vera Wang

As a working artist, I became increasingly aware of the patterns we see in the street and in America, becoming globalized in terms of…

— Kehinde Wiley

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a…

— Etel Adnan

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism -…

— Andy Warhol

When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of political art…

— Kehinde Wiley

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

— Meyer Schapiro

And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what…

— Willem de Kooning