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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.