Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Roy Lichtenstein

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
Chuck Close

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
Chuck Close

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

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Jackson Pollock

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

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Jackson Pollock

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

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

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

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

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
Jackson Pollock

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
Jackson Pollock

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock

My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
Denis Diderot

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
Twyla Tharp