Abstract Expressionism Art Quotes

#1. Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

Jerry Saltz

#2. Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

Robert Motherwell

#3. From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

Tammy Baldwin

#4. A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. Writing my own novels in the '90s ... I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

Mary Doria Russell

#6. I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I have imprisoned the most utter violence in every inch of their surface.

Mark Rothko

#7. Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.

Craig Groeschel

#8. When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.

Peter Saul

#9. I've been sleeping with the night light unplugged
With a note on the rocking chair
It says I'm dreaming of the life I once loved
So wake me if you're out there

Owl City

#10. Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued.

Fred Thompson

#11. L.A. is such a different place. I miss New York so much. I almost teared up when I came back and wanted a Guinness and realized I could drink it and take a cab home. I remembered that I could be a functional alcoholic in New York, like I used to be!

Donald Glover

#12. Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

Bruce Lee

#13. I meant skies all empty aching blue. I meant years. I meant all of them with you.

Kate Clanchy

#14. Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent

Thomas Hobbes

#15. We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Andy Warhol

#16. The first purpose of clothes ... was not warmth or decency, but ornament ... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.

Thomas Carlyle

#17. The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

Esther Dyson

#18. When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.

Geoffrey Rush

#19. Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

Nhat Hanh

#20. Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Addison Mizner

#21. Painters
and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!

Kurt Vonnegut