Because i can Quote by Willem de Kooning

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a…

— Willem de Kooning

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

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

— Euan Uglow

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

— Franz Kline

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

— Brice Marden

Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate…

— Max Beckmann

When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.

— Paula Scher

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship…

— Ben Nicholson

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

I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which…

— George Frederic Watts

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy