Abstract Quote by Robert Rauschenberg

I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too uptight, you're…

— Paul Laffoley

When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done. I did…

— Georg Baselitz

The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle,…

— Aaron Siskind

I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer,…

— Duane Michals

Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self…

— Graham Greene

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand…

— Jenny Hval

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

— Julia Cameron

You cannot truly express yourself until you first discover who you are.

— Gangaji

Expressing myself is one of my strengths.

— Kim Woo-bin

We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice.

— John Kador

Being able to express yourself is one of the hardest things in the world.

— Roisin Murphy

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

— Walter Darby Bannard