Abstract Painting Quotes
Abstract Painting Quote of the day
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.
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.
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
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.
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.
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.
That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.
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.
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.
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.
I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.
I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.