"After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract……" — Robert Bateman
"After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since."
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22 Quotes by Robert Bateman
Robert Bateman has 22 quotes on this site.
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I take two walks up hills each day, and bike ride each morning. I also have an exercise bike to…
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When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best…
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I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.
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Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years…
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In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In…
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My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled,…
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I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty…
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Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so…
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Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.
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If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you…
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A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly…
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Nature is not a free lunch, but we treat it as a free lunch.
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More Abstract Quotes
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one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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