Art Quote by Jackson Pollock Download Open image “The painting has a life of its own” — Jackson Pollock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Inspirational Intuition Life Painting
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life. — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not… — Edward Hopper Copy Share
The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The successful painter is continually painting still life. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. — Richard Pousette-Dart Copy Share Image
If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about.… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image