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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No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.
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I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.
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There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.
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Only when we connect to nature, engaged with nature, are we truly alive and vigorous. To really be alive, one must be under the sun, the moon, the shining stars and surrounded by the beautiful greenery and pure waters of the natural world.
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That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
