Every good artist paints what he is

Jackson Pollock
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Every good artist paints what he is. In other words, the artist is the one who decides how to paint a subject. In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” Polonius says, “To paint sweet beauty lose her throne and give her up to nightingales who sing more sweetly than they see.” He is saying that beauty is more beautiful when it’s not being looked at. Therefore, a good artist paints what he feels and not what he sees. He can paint a person as a distorted image of himself, a place he has never been or even a thing that isn’t there.

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