Abstract Painting Quotes - Page 2

• When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.

  Mary GrandPre

  Children, Book, Artist

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

  Frank Stella

  Real, Century, Painting

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• 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. He had an amazing collection. I didn't know people painted abstractly, I thought I was just doing something wholeheartedly.

  Dennis Hopper

  People, House, Saws

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

  Lance Henriksen

  Years, Horror Genre, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

  Chris Martin

  Interesting, Painting, Abstract

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• Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

  Francis Bacon

  Interesting, Levels, Shapes

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• 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 any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Compliment

  Interview, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 1950

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• I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.

  Neil Farber

  Art, Fun, Drawing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

  Igor Babailov

  Art, Technique, Ease

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• 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 to fall into a sort of pastiche.

  Joe Bradley

  Motivation, Fall, Thinking

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.

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• One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Color, Design

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• When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

  Damien Hirst

  School, Stuff, Kind

  "Damien Hirst interview for The Blue Paintings at the Wallace Collection". Interview with John Hoyland, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 13, 2009.

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