Abstract Quote by Robert Motherwell

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and…

— Jerry Saltz

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

— Joni Mitchell

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

— Don DeLillo

I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

— Jackson Pollock

When I was going to school and under the influence of Abstract Expressionism, I believed that if you had a give-and-take rapport with your…

— Roy Lichtenstein

There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to the store?…

— Paul Laffoley

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

— Aaron Huey

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

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained…

— LeRoy Neiman

But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The…

— Romare Bearden

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism -…

— Andy Warhol