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.
Jackson PollockRead
Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that painting is a journey of self-exploration and expresses the artist's inner self.
Jackson Pollock suggests that the act of painting is not merely a creative endeavor but a profound journey of self-discovery. It indicates that good artists express their true essence and emotions through their artwork, implying that art is an intimate reflection of one's identity and experiences.
In practice
During a workshop on creativity, one might share this quote to inspire participants to express themselves through art.
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.
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.
A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
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