Quotes About Abstract Expressionism

#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. I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

#3. Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

Joni Mitchell

#4. The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

LeRoy Neiman

#5. 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

#6. There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction.

Robert Rauschenberg

#7. I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Henry Flynt

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

Aaron Huey

#10. But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.

Romare Bearden

#11. Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

Nora Ephron

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

Robert Motherwell

#13. I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.

Neil Patrick Harris

#14. If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

Gerald Brenan

#15. 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

#16. Now, are you just a bloody noisy tosspot, or are you going to help me?

Ian Simpson

#17. Forgetting doesn't mean it never happened; it means not dealing with the consequences.

Laura Thalassa

#18. The heart and the mind ... what an enigma.

Charlie Chaplin

#19. Art is whatever you can get away with.

Marshall McLuhan

#20. Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass with three silver bar jacks swimming in front of her nose.

Brian Skerry

#21. Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

Brian Jacques

#22. Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Alfred North Whitehead

#23. How deep they lay, these second persons, and how little one knew about them, except to guard them fiercely. It was to music, more than to anything else, that these hidden things in people responded.

Willa Cather

#24. 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

#25. But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.'

Howie Carr

#26. Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

Chubby Checker

#27. The unconscious compulsion to enhance one's identity through association with an object is built into the very structure of the egoic mind.

Eckhart Tolle

#28. The show must go on all over the place or something.

Cory Monteith

#29. It is like the keening sound the moon makes sometimes,/rising.

Robert Hass