Art Quotes

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"I paint with my whole body, not just my hands."
Jackson Pollock
"The canvas has no surface; it has infinite depth."
Jackson Pollock
"I reject the notion that art must be beautiful."
Jackson Pollock
"I paint the struggle, not the resolution."
Jackson Pollock
"The drip technique is my signature conversation with gravity."
Jackson Pollock
"Art must break the rules to become art."
Jackson Pollock
"I seek to paint the invisible architecture of emotion."
Jackson Pollock
"Technique without vision is merely decoration."
Jackson Pollock
"I work to express what society refuses to acknowledge."
Jackson Pollock
"The canvas is my mirror and my window."
Jackson Pollock
"The most honest art comes from the deepest pain."
Jackson Pollock
"I paint to make the invisible visible."
Jackson Pollock
"I work in the space where control and chaos meet."
Jackson Pollock
"The painting speaks louder than any words."
Jackson Pollock
"The drip is democracy on canvas."
Jackson Pollock
"Art is the only language that needs no translation."
Jackson Pollock
"I paint the spaces between conscious and unconscious."
Jackson Pollock
"Art is a form of controlled madness."
Jackson Pollock
"The gesture is everything; the image is nothing."
Jackson Pollock
"I paint the violence and beauty of existence."
Jackson Pollock
"The canvas is a battlefield where order and chaos fight."
Jackson Pollock
"I am interested in the energy of the work, not its appearance."
Jackson Pollock
"The work must live and breathe on its own."
Jackson Pollock
"I paint with the passion of one who has nothing to lose."
Jackson Pollock
"Art comes from joy and pain. But mostly from pain."
Edvard Munch
"I paint my own reality. The reality of my feelings, not the reality of the world."
Edvard Munch
"I do not believe in the art which is not born of man's desire to open his heart."
Edvard Munch
"A painter should not paint what he sees, but what he feels."
Edvard Munch
"I paint moonlight and inner turmoil with the same brush."
Edvard Munch
"Every work of art is born from a wound that the artist carries."
Edvard Munch