Symbolist Painters

Famous quotes containing the words symbolist and/or painters:

“I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)