Jackson Pollock Quotes

When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. 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.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

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.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age 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. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

It seems to me that 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. Each age find its own technique.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work