#painting

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ↗

— Plutarch

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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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

— Jackson Pollock

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My painting does not come from the easel. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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