Artist Quote by Jackson Pollock

I'd be so fascinated to talk to a psychologist or sociologist about the deep psychological impact of seeing oneself represented. I don't think we've…

— Sandra Oh

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was…

— Gerhard Richter

I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.

— Cate Blanchett

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...

— Sigfried Giedion

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

— Odilon Redon

I don't try to represent myself in a way that's not connected with my everyday reality, because I'm not smart enough to do that.

— Katya Zamolodchikova

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting.…

— Lauren Oliver

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always…

— Jack Kirby

Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a…

— Richard Diebenkorn

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time.…

— Waka Flocka Flame