#paint

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#any #back #beginning #compliment #confronts

Every good painter paints what he is. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#every #good #painter #paints

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#aware #doing #i #i am #painting

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#drawings #final #i #into #make

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative. ↗

— Steve Prefontaine

#beautiful #before #being #better #brush

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. ↗

— Matthew Prior

#divine #form #join #paint #semblance

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. ↗

— Man Ray

#comes #dreams #drive #i #imagination

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting. ↗

— Billy Rose

#eats #invest #needs #never #painting

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#bizarre #caricature #course #dichotomy #does

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#decorative #distortion #institutional #intense #intimate