“Every good painter paints what he is.”– Jackson Pollock Related Quotes “People of art should never get married and have children, because it’s a selfish experience.”– Mikhail Baryshnikov “I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.”– Jerry Saltz “Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.”– Paul Valery