#painting

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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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. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#emerge #figures #i #little #out

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#center #depend #interest #paintings #same

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#architecture #art #art form #aspect #certainly

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality. ↗

— Diego Rivera

#breaks #female #her #paintings #sexuality

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#appeared #arrangement #arts #creative #culmination

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#beautiful #beautiful paintings #design #japanese #minimum

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#american #believed #big #country #crash

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

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