ARTISTS
KIKUO SAITO
“A Japanese-born American abstract painter with ties to the Color Field movement and Lyrical abstraction.”
—Estate of Kikuo Saito
SAM FRANCIS
“Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.”
— Sam Francis
ROBERT MOTHERWELL
“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”
— Robert Motherwell
RICHARD DIEBENKORN
"It is not a matter of painting life. It's a matter of giving life to a painting."
— Richard Diebenkorn
JIM DINE
"For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything."
— Jim Dine
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
FRIEDEL DZUBAS
“Let color speak as directly as possible”
— Friedel Dzubas
LARRY POONS
“There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color”
— Larry Poons
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
ADOLPH GOTTLIEB
"When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards."
— Adolph Gottlieb
KENNETH NOLAND
"I think of painting without subject matter as music without words."
— Kenneth Noland
JOHN LITTLE
“I was trying to get away from the drawing, letting form and color carry the idea rather than the line.”
— John Little
HOWARD MEHRING
"I wanted to capture the “floating sensation” of jazz."
— Howard Mehring
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