#painting

My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. ↗

— Yoko Ono

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

— Jackson Pollock

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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

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

— Jackson Pollock

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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. ↗