Quotes About Expressionism

I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life

What proved so attractive was that terrorism had become a kind of philosophy through which to express frustration, resentment, and blind hatred, a kind of political expressionism which used bombs to express oneself, which watched delightedly the publicity given to resounding deeds and was absolutely willing to pay the price of life for having succeeded in forcing the recognition of one's existence on the normal strata of society.

When I was going to school and under the influence of Abstract Expressionism, I believed that if you had a give-and-take rapport with your work that it would be you, and that would be all that was required. It would be honest, and the core of your personality would come out if you responded to position and contrasts in your work.

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!

like the ghastly mouth in Edvard Munch's painting The Scream.

There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.

Expressionism in art prophetically anticipated this subjective development, for all art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

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

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.

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

When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

We are all Expressionists part of the time. Sometimes we just want to scream loudly at injustice, or to stand up and be counted. These are noble motives, but any serious revolutionist must often deprive himself of the pleasures of self-expression. He must judge his actions by their ultimate effects on institutions.

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.

Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway.

Estou bem estes dias, a não ser um certo fundo de vaga tristeza difícil de definir

Ninguna palabra está completa / ni siquiera en alemán que las tiene tan grandes.

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.

In the 1960s, when abstract expressionism was the reigning style, those art students who tended to be sullen, brooding, and antisocial were thought by their teachers to be very creative.

I love the way Miriam looks, because it's not based on anything human; she's going for German Expressionism or Kabuki sheet cake.

I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters