Abstract Painter Quotes

#1. Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

Pierre Alechinsky

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

Brice Marden

#3. The truth was, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist was the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two had in common was the blank page.

Lynsey Addario

#4. The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.

Lynsey Addario

#5. I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

Jenny Holzer

#6. I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take anything that's not necessarily going to be timeless. I want to get across what I feel and I just use the figure because I enjoy the figure.

Jason Shawn Alexander

#7. I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a shoe store, sell real estate, or what? I was really depressed by the whole thing, because I felt like a painter, yet I couldn't make paintings.

Ralph Goings

#8. I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

Daniel Tosh

#9. If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

E. J. Hughes

#10. He had abandoned her after all; it filled her with the kind of bone-deep disappointment she knew so well.

Kristin Hannah

#11. I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.

Chloe Sevigny

#12. I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

Damien Hirst

#13. I also want the figurative like a painter who only paints abstract colors but wants to show that he does so because he chooses to, not because he can't draw.

Clarice Lispector

#14. Beauty is in the mind, not the eye.

Agnes Martin

#15. If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

Wyndham Lewis

#16. For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

Robert Motherwell

#17. there's always a first step in everything

Hlovate

#18. The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Charles Dickens

#19. Everything changes. That's the universal nature of outer reality and inner experience. Therefore, there's no end to disturbed equilibria as long as you live.

Rick Hanson

#20. At some point, the devoted pass from belief into certainty. I did not believe in Islam; I opened my eyes every morning and saw it.

G. Willow Wilson

#21. I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Aaron Huey

#22. The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

Jeffrey Sachs

#23. I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this.

Milton Resnick

#24. I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.

Skandar Keynes