Expressionism Quotes

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

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.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

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

I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

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

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

Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.

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.

The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed.