Jackson Pollock
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.Collection: Art
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.Collection: Good
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.Collection: Work
Every good painter paints what he is.Collection: Art
My painting does not come from the easel.Collection: Art
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Age
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.Collection: Art
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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.
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 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.
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.
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'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.
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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.
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
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.Collection: Flower
Art is coming face to face with yourself.Collection: Art
The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.Collection: Inspirational
It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.Collection: Long
There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.Collection: Ends
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.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Mean
A canvas is an arena in which to act.Collection: Arena
Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.Collection: Painting
I don't paint nature. I am nature.Collection: Artist
A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Memories
I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.Collection: Art
You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.Collection: Trying
Love is friendship set to music.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Airplane
In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?Collection: Making Love
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.Collection: Death
My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.Collection: Rhythm
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.Collection: Art
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.Collection: Art
I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.Collection: Feelings
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.Collection: Glasses
Painting is a state of being.Collection: Painting
I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.Collection: Flow