Famous Quotes

"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."

Jackson Pollock on Art

More quotes about Art

• "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

  Albert Einstein on Art

• "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

  Vincent Van Gogh on Art

• "The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

  Abraham Lincoln on Art

• "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

  Aristotle on Art

• "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

  Oscar Wilde on Art

More quotes by Jackson Pollock

• "New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture."

• "Every good painter paints what he is."

• "My painting does not come from the easel."

• "The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."

• "I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."