Abstract Quote by Robert Motherwell

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you…

— Jackson Pollock

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

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

Blank paper always symbolizes the anxiety of the painter.

— Claude Picasso

I've never done an anguished painting.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget…

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle,…

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

— Stephen Wright

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean…

— Marlene Dumas