Jackson Pollock Quotes

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.

How do you know when you're finished making love?

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.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

My painting does not come from the easel.

On the floor I am more at ease.

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

The painting has a life of its own

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

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.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves.

Love is friendship set to music.

I do not paint nature. I am nature.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in spaceTechnic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.