Abstract Quote by LeRoy Neiman

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey

When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.

— Ben Eine

I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing…

— Dennis Hopper

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

— Jenny Holzer

I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached it from…

— Billy Zane

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

— Adrien Brody

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known…

— Henry Flynt

My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time, I had…

— Maria Cornejo

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

— Ray Davies

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a…

— Peter Wright

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised…

— Georg Baselitz

In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me.…

— Grace Slick