Abstraction Quote by Jerry Saltz

Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters…

— Glenn Ligon

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

— Roy Lichtenstein

A lot of the most prolific painters died broke and weren't appreciated in their time. I'm trying to remember who exactly I was thinking…

— Vic Mensa

“expensive paint jobs in history. Michelangelo began at the top of the wall and slowly worked his way down for more than seven years,…

— Benjamin Blech

One of my biggest Disney influences in terms of world-building on this record was a background painter named Eyvind Earle, who was working in…

— Caroline Polachek

As far as visual artists, I find inspiration in Henri Rousseau, who painted amazing, dream-like junglescapes without ever leaving France, and who sort of…

— Christopher Moore

“I’ve had so many influences and sources of inspiration as an illustrator that it is impossible to name just one. I loved Aubrey Beardsley…

— Alan Lee

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

— John Dyer

“Being able to draw well’, he goes on, ‘is the hardest thing – far harder than painting, as one can easily see from the…

— Martin Gayford

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.

— Warren MacKenzie

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

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico