Abstraction Quote by Jerry Saltz

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

— Fannie Hurst

Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.

— Cliff Chiang

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'

— Hozier

I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me…

— Neil Farber

With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was…

— Guido Palau

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it…

— Marcel Proust

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately…

— David Bowie

[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost interest and…

— Kehinde Wiley

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

— Sigfried Giedion

Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or…

— Chloe Sevigny

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single…

— Thomas Hoving

For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.

— Alix Smith