abstract expressionism

🇺🇸Willem de Kooning

Art

abstract expressionism

1904–1997

"The sentiment of the Futurists was simpler. No space. Everything ought to keep going! That's probably the reason they went themselves. Either a man was a machine or else a sacrifice to make machines with.."

🇺🇸Franz Kline

Music

abstract expressionism

1910–1962

"If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does."

🇺🇸Lee Krasner

Art

abstract expressionism

1908–1984

"I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it."

🇺🇸Clyfford Still

Art

abstract expressionism

1904–1980

"The best works are often those with the fewest and simplest elements.. ..until you look at them a little more, and things start to happen."

🇺🇸Jackson Pollock

Art

abstract expressionism

1912–1956

"I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural.."

"When I first saw the work of Matisse I knew that was for me."

🇨🇦Philip Guston

Art

abstract expressionism

1913–1980

"I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum."

🇺🇸Mark Tobey

Philosophy

abstract expressionism

1890–1976

"At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit."

🇺🇸Louise Nevelson

Politics

abstract expressionism

1899–1988

"Anywhere I found wood I took it home and started working with it..to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind."

🇺🇸Joan Mitchell

Art

abstract expressionism

1925–1992

"I'm trying to remember what I felt about a certain cypress tree and I feel if I remember it, it will last me quite a long life."

🇺🇸Barnett Newman

Art

abstract expressionism

1905–1970

"We feel that our pictures demonstrate our aesthetic beliefs, some of which we, therefore, list:"

Karel Appel

Art

abstract expressionism

1921–2006

"A war is raging within me that burns everything. So I can begin again."

"I didn’t choose painting … It chose me. I didn’t have any talent. I just had genius."

🇺🇸Ad Reinhardt

Art

abstract expressionism

1913–1967

"My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil."

🇺🇸Elaine de Kooning

Journalism

abstract expressionism

1918–1989

"women painted women: Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Mary Cassatt, and so forth. And I thought, men always painted the opposite sex, and I wanted to paint men as sex objects."

"This was the greatest invasion in this war so far – probably the greatest in human history – and the sea was crowded to the horizon with uncountable ships, but we were as lost and ineffective as babes in the wood."

🇺🇸Adolph Gottlieb

Art

abstract expressionism

1903–1974

"My favourite symbols were those I did not understand."

🇺🇸Captain Beefheart

Music

abstract expressionism

1941–2010

"That's right, The Mascara Snake. Fast and bulbous! Also, a tin teardrop!"

🇺🇸Theodoros Stamos

Art

abstract expressionism

1922–1997

"There is a strong and conscious relationship between my work and nature which finally manifests itself in an impersonal expression."

🇺🇸Helen Frankenthaler

Art

abstract expressionism

1928–2011

"140 images of painting art by Helen Frankenthaler, on Wikiart"

🇺🇸Alma Thomas

Art

abstract expressionism

1891–1978

"Art is inevitably the expression of external conditions, modified though they be by the genius and personality of the artist."