Quotes About Abstract Paintings

#1. Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

Frank Stella

#2. Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.

Frank Stella

#3. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

Lance Henriksen

#4. 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.

David Ogilvy

#5. 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.

Damien Hirst

#6. If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

Gerhard Richter

#7. Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I'm glad I came, but just the same, I must be going.

Groucho Marx

#8. I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

Brittany Howard

#9. Striving to meet my father's expectations is like climbing out of quicksand: the harder I try to get to the top, the more I'm sucked back down by his unrelenting criticism.

Lac Su

#10. Nutrition isn't the only problem; our children also aren't getting enough exercise.

Matt Cartwright

#11. I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.

Yves Klein

#12. Find your passion and run with it. Anything is possible.

Kendall Schmidt

#13. There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. 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

#15. THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER MISUSE OF THIS CHANNEL. YOU ARE DISTURBING OTHERS WHO ARE USING IT TO SERIOUS PURPOSE. ACCESS WILL BE RESTORED WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS FOR. GOODBYE

Dan Simmons

#16. I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

Isaac Mizrahi

#17. Great paintings have gradations, large and small ... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.

Robert Genn

#18. All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

Mike Svob

#19. The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'

Mark Bradford

#20. 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