Abstract Quote by Kurt Wagner

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded…

— Kurt Wagner

Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when…

— Gerald Brommer

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or…

— Jackson Pollock

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

— Robert Motherwell

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be…

— Robert Motherwell

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you....

— Jackson Pollock

I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to…

— Claude Monet

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what…

— Danny Fox

Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in particular -…

— April Gornik

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I…

— Tom Wesselmann

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns