Art Quotes

"Every good painter paints what he is."

"The painting has a life of its own."

"There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end."

"My painting does not come from the easel."

"The action painting tries to avoid any allusion."

"Energy and motion made visible."

"I don't think that there is any difference between a great painter and a bad painter in the way they work."

"One needs to paint the painting itself."

"The picture has to have a compositional sense."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how."

"The size of the painting is important."

"The idea of modern painting is not to transmit an idea."

"The modern painter cannot express this age in terms of the Renaissance or of any past culture."

"American painting is not lacking in vitality."

"The modern painter works with a space and a time continuum."

"Pollock is splashing."

"I think of my pictures as dramas."

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"I don't think the modern painter is expressing this age in terms of the Renaissance."

"I find it very difficult to think in terms of just modern art."

"Art is life and life is art."

"Art should be life and life should be art."

"The materials are just materials."

"Movement is vital."

"Art is not separate from life."

"The painting itself is the statement."

"The painting speaks for itself."

"There is no formula for creation."

"The picture must mean something."

"All painting is an accident."