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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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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

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Every good painter paints what he is. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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

— Jackson Pollock

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

— Jackson Pollock

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I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do. ↗

— Richard Price

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At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Matthew Prior

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If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

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Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy. ↗