Jackson Pollock Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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All existing art was religious until perhaps a hundred years ago. Within that there's obviously been lots of room for manipulation. I think that's because our current religion is capitalism. Capitalism has the functions of patronage, commissions, control of content, bestowing of space, elevation of certain artists over others based on how much they pander to people in power, the determination of value of the work, all of it. Capitalism commissions artwork now, the market.
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I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.
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You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons 'The work was free. Keep it so.'
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Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
