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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane."
"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."
Explore more quotes by Jackson Pollock
"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."
"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."
"The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces."
"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."
"The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."
"I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting."
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