A Quote by Jackson Pollock

Every good painter paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock

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Art Every Good Painter Paints Very Good

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Jackson Pollock
American - Artist
January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956

If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!

L. S. Lowry

The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

James Elkins

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

Grace Slick

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

Pablo Picasso

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

Josef Albers

No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It's someone who's trying to do a good painting, but it's terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn't know how to paint it.

Jennifer Coolidge

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.

Damien Hirst

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

Pablo Picasso

Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.

Joni Mitchell

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.

Herwarth Walden

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.

Robert Motherwell

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

Mary Astor

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

Brahmananda Saraswati

The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day.