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

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

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

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

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
Howard Hodgkin

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Paul Cezanne

My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock

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

I have sworn to die painting.
Paul Cezanne

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
Paul Cezanne

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul Cezanne

I hate painting.
Howard Hodgkin

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
Paul Cezanne

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
Catherine Deneuve

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Howard Stern