Abstract Quote by Larry Rivers

I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack.…

— Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

— Jenny Holzer

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy…

— Joe Bradley

A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and not so…

— Edward Ruscha

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against…

— Frank Stella

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

— Giorgio de Chirico

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

— Amy Sillman

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

— Javier Bardem

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

— Chris Martin

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

— Stephen Wright

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is…

— Jonas Mekas

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