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10 inspirational john pollock quotes on success

Nishad Howlader · September 1, 2022 · 1 min read
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  • The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future – without arriving there completely.
  • It doesn’t matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
  • To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.
  • People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
  • The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
  • 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.
  • The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
  • You can’t learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.
  • Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
  • It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

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