List Of Abstract Painting Quotes

I Never Had The... Common Anxiety As To Whether Abstract Painting Had A Given 'meaning.

Experience Has Proved That There Is No Difference Between A So-called Realist Painting - Of A Landscape, For Example - And An Abstract Painting. They Both Have More Or Less The Same Effect On The Observer.

If The Abstract Paintings Show My Reality, Then The Landscapes And Still-lifes Show My Yearning.

Some Manufacturers Illustrate Their Advertisements With Abstract Paintings. I Would Only Do This If I Wished To Conceal From The Reader What I Was Advertising.

Abstract Painting Is Dead. That's Why It Has Become So Interesting Again.

Abstract Painting Is Abstract. It Confronts You.

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.

Think Of An Abstract Painting As Very, Very Low Relief - A Thing, Not A Picture.

Of All The Arts, Abstract Painting Is The Most Difficult. It Demands That You Know How To Draw Well, That You Have A Heightened Sensitivity For Composition And For Colors, And That You Be A True Poet. This Last Is Essential.

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.

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 You Painting And This Canvas. I Think There Has To Be A Third Thing; It Has To Be A Trialogue.

Even With Painting, Even Abstract Paintings, You Need The Incoming Of, Light On The Canvas.