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.
Jackson PollockPeople have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
Jackson PollockA real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
Jackson PollockThe 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.
Jackson Pollock