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Artist Quotes by Jackson Pollock
- Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
- I don't paint nature. I am nature.
- Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what…
- As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study…
- Every good painter paints what he is.
- When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the…
- The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
- The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
- New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express…
- It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving…
- The painting has a life of its own
- When I say artist I don't meanin the narrow sense of the wordbut the man who is building thingscreating molding the earthwhether itbe the plains…
More Artist Quotes
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu