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I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible. -- Hedda Sterne
I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it. -- Ellsworth Kelly
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration. -- Martin Filler
You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist. -- Robert Rauschenberg
After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since. -- Robert Bateman
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. -- David Hockney
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation. -- Georg Baselitz
I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess. -- LeRoy Neiman
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman. -- Jean-Michel Basquiat
Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives. -- Edmund Phelps
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity. -- Roy Lichtenstein
Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph. -- Josip Novakovich
You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist. -- Robert Rauschenberg
I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something. -- Jacob Lawrence
I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing abstract stuff all through high school. -- Dennis Hopper
I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs. -- Duane Michals

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