KIKUO SAITO
“A Japanese-born American abstract painter with ties to the Color Field movement and Lyrical abstraction.”
—Estate of Kikuo Saito
ROBERT MOTHERWELL
“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”
— Robert Motherwell
PAUL JENKINS
“I try to paint like a crapshooter throwing dice, utilizing past experience and my knowledge of the odds. It's a big gamble, and that's why I love it.”
— Paul Jenkins
CLEVE GRAY
“I think a certain time in your life arrives when you’re so involved with your own work that the outside world drops off”
— Cleve Gray
JULES OLITSKI
“What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.”
— Jules Olitski
HELEN FRANKENTHALER
“There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.”
— Helen Frankenthaler
JOHN LITTLE
“I was trying to get away from the drawing, letting form and color carry the idea rather than the line.”
— John Little
EMILY MASON
“My work, while never a depiction of nature, is analogous in its process to the workings of nature and, in its result, aims for the beauty of the interior of a great storm or a day lily.”
— Emily Mason