Art Style Quotes

Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.

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).

I started under my master, Etienne Decroux, who taught me a new grammar for mime he called statuary mime. This grammar brings style creations. Without it, no art survives.

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.

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

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

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

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.

For painting, I like strong lines, powerful pieces.

I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.

I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

Minimal art went nowhere.

In Giacometti's work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and also, he's brought back to sculpture a nervous sensitivity which the 'pure carving' side of sculpture can lose sight of altogether.

As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.

In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among the first group of artists to establish a movement that became known as Cynical Realism.

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.

Most of my artwork is geared towards being humorous in some light.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

Traditional conceptual art is very dry.

Basically, I'm always coming up with ideas for mixing the things I want to draw with things targeted at children.

With manga, in my art style, I don't do much in the way of techniques to create depth. But even though I don't do depth techniques through my art, I am conscious of depth itself.

I'm not interested in pop art.

I really love advertising art of the '50s and the way mid-century design was often represented in jazzy, fast art.