Expressionist Quotes

#1. After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

Robert Bateman

#2. When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.

Kate Winslet

#3. 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

#4. My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I'm older than they are, much older. I feel ancient.

Margaret Atwood

#5. How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.

Ellen Goodman

#6. I second that motion," Sally said. "I third it," Jen put in. "You can't third something you dork, you just say aye, to show you are in agreement," Sally told her.

Quinn Loftis

#7. Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

Martin Filler

#8. Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.

Buzz Aldrin

#9. The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.

Saint Ambrose

#10. I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

#11. I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.

Duane Michals

#12. We were losers who talked a winning game. No wonder honesty came to mean for my sister saying only the most damaging things against herself. If she began by admitting defeat, then something was possible: sincerity, perhaps, or at least the avoidance of appearing ludicrous.

Edmund White

#13. I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

Dave Matthews

#14. Where the realist would say, "One day Gregor Samsa woke up to the realization that he was like a cockroach," the expressionist heightens or intensifies reality by turning the metaphor to fact.

John Gardner

#15. For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You've done the time but wonder if it's going to satisfy the judge.

Shandy L. Kurth

#16. It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge.

Jay McInerney

#17. I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.

Phyllis Diller

#18. Only when people are aware will they start to care.

Toni Sorenson

#19. With the way I dress, I think my personality shows, so I don't always have to talk. Someone can see what I'm wearing, see what socks I'm wearing, and see what my vibe is, what kind of person I am

Dwyane Wade

#20. Shut your noise, you old c***!

Alan Pardew

#21. You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

Robert Rauschenberg

#22. Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

David Hockney

#23. I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

Jacob Lawrence

#24. I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Georg Baselitz

#25. I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible.

Hedda Sterne

#26. I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first ... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.

LeRoy Neiman

#27. I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters,

Pete Hamill

#28. To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

Sophocles

#29. Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.

Edmund Phelps

#30. Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.

Roy Lichtenstein

#31. Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

Josip Novakovich

#32. I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it.

Ellsworth Kelly