I don't paint nature. I am nature.
Jackson PollockRead
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.
Interpretation
Abstract art challenges viewers by lacking traditional structures and inviting personal interpretation.
In this quote, Jackson Pollock reflects on the nature of abstract painting, arguing that its very essence lies in its abstraction which provokes thought and emotional response. He emphasizes that the absence of conventional beginnings and endings in his work can be seen as a virtue, allowing viewers the freedom to find their own meanings and interpretations within the art, even if that was not the reviewer’s original intent.
In practice
In an art class discussion about abstract works, this quote can be used to illustrate how interpretations vary.
I don't paint nature. I am nature.
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.
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
My painting does not come from the easel.
I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
"Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.
Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.
I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.
I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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