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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.
Jackson Pollock / Artist
Abstract Painting
Compliment
Expressionism
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The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.
Marc Chagall / Artist
Freedom
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Soul
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In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
Lance Henriksen / Actor
Abstract
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Fantasy
Painting
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Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.
Chris Martin / Singer-Songwriter
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Interesting
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Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.
Frank Stella / Painter
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Century
Real
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I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.
Robert Motherwell / Painter
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Anxiety
Common
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Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.
Jean-Luc Godard / Film Director
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Light
Needs
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If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
Gerhard Richter / Visual Artist
Art
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Reality
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I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.
Andrew Lam / Writer
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Fiction
Writing
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We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.
Theo Van Doesburg / Artist
Art
Smile
Abstract Painting
Color
Real
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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 / Businessman
Abstract
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Advertising
Reader
Advertisement
Conceal
Illustrate
Manufacturers
Wished
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I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
Frank Stella / Painter
Abstract
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Artist
Gestures
Obsessed
Wall
Worried
Painterly
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When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
Walter Darby Bannard / Painter
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Echoes
Patterns
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Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.
Francis Bacon / Former Lord Chancellor
Abstract Painting
Interesting
Levels
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Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.
Igor Babailov / Artist
Art
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Technique
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Jackson Pollock / Artist
Abstract
Abstract Painting
Artist
Compliment
Mean
Painting
Back
Beginning
Pictures
Reviewer
While
Wrote
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Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer.
Gerhard Richter / Visual Artist
Abstract Painting
Differences
Example
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When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing; it has to be a trialogue.
Philip Guston / Painter
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People
Thinking
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Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.
Wassily Kandinsky / Artist
Art
Abstract Painting
Color
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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 / Artist
Abstract
Abstract Painting
Colour
Curtains
Formal
Neglect
School
Stuff
Tutor
Great Always Me
Great Me School
Naturally
Everyone Else
Great Me Always
Paintings
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I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.
Igor Stravinsky / Composer
Age
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Negative
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