Aim Quote by Jackson Pollock

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have had means…

— Jackson Pollock

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work…

— Jackson Pollock

The idea of the culture that you live in determining meaning in your art, though, is a very important aspect of what art would…

— Robert Barry

“What genuine painters do is to reveal the underlying psychological and spiritual conditions of their relationship to their world; thus in the works of…

— Rollo May

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Art is more than a sum of cultural signs: It is a language both direct and associative, and has a grammar and syntax like…

— David Salle

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has…

— Theophile Gautier

“It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than the feeling…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think…

— Helen Mirren

As an artist, you're just observing the world around you. So much is overwhelming and it's all so inescapable that it can't all speak…

— Laura Jane Grace

In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they…

— Aldous Huxley