#painting

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

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

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#around #ease #feel #floor #four

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#i #life #own #painting #through

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. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#acquainted #after #aware #been #changes

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life. ↗

— Franka Potente

#been #being #conscious #consciously #going

I found I have to stay painting. ↗

— Alan Bean

#i #painting #stay

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#computers #digital #enough #huge #huge challenge

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#certain things #endured #mediocrity #music #painting

I want to die painting. ↗