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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. -- Aaron Huey
Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks. -- Joni Mitchell
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. -- Don DeLillo
The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! -- LeRoy Neiman
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning). -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- Henry Flynt
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. -- Robert Motherwell
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. -- Nora Ephron
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. -- Andy Warhol
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience. -- Romare Bearden
There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction. -- Robert Rauschenberg
I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too uptight, you're not expressing yourself, why don't you feel freer?" I said, "Well, I don't like that stuff. It means nothing to me." -- Paul Laffoley

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