Andre Breton Quotes

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.

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

Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

You are in every line I have ever read.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

I paint abstract expressions.

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.

Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.

I think 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster of a man.

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.