#painting

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#blind #feels #himself #man #painting

One must act in painting as in life, directly. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#directly #life #must #painting

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#beautiful #horror #i #must #painting

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#does #just #opposite #painting #particular

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

— Pablo Picasso

#comment #make #painter #painting #sculpture

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#center #depend #interest #paintings #same

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#architecture #art #art form #aspect #certainly

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#because #changes #destroying #etc #fear

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

#contact #easy #give #give and take #harmony

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

— Jackson Pollock

#every #good #painting #paints #self-discovery