top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Painting quotes
"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I found I have to stay painting."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Jackson Pollock
"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."
Beginning
"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."
Art
"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."
Difference
"Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within."
Work
"The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."
Time
"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."
Time
"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."
Life
"I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc."
Creativity
"When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own."
Life
"I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting."
Work
bottom of page