Abstract painting Quote by Stephen Wright

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

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

— David Hockney

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

— Brice Marden

When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is…

— Philip Guston

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in…

— Francis Bacon

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you....

— Jackson Pollock

I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack.…

— Dennis Hopper

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I…

— Willem de Kooning

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

Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was]…

— Willem de Kooning

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

— Theo van Doesburg