Artist Quote by Jackson Pollock Download Open image “You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.” — Jackson Pollock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Education Learn Techniques Painter Painter Techniques Painting Results Technique Techniques Try Try Painter Trying
Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist. — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice. — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever. — John Burnside 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
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp 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
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
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead 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… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“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
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
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
