Abstract Quote by Joshua L. Goldberg

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

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

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the…

— Pierre Alechinsky

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.

— Steven Whitney

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

— Robert Reynolds

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

“There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be who they…

— David Bayles

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

— Frank Stella

Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection…

— Ken Gillespie

As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters…

— Hans Hofmann

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet