Always Quote by Jerry Saltz

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

— Roy Lichtenstein

“His drawings were not originals then, only copies. He must have been doing them as a sort of retirement hobby, he was an incurable…

— Margaret Atwood

The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and,…

— Paul Delaroche

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about…

— Ed Harris

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones…

— Miguel de Cervantes

The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the…

— Jacques-Louis David

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to…

— Ernest Hemingway

The artist by his work is known.

— Francoise-Marguerite de Sevigne

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us,…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

— Dore Ashton