Jackson PollockA 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.362PoliticsSadness
Jackson PollockPainting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. ✨ Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). Jackson Pollock, Abbeville Pr363Sadness
Jackson PollockOn the floor I am more at ease. ✨ Jackson Pollock (2003). Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe., Kehrer Verlag352Reflection
Jackson PollockBums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall. ✨ Jackson Pollock (2011). American Letters: 1927-1947, p.36, Polity342Humor
Jackson PollockMy paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.331Sadness
Jackson PollockI don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. ✨ Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). Jackson Pollock, Abbevill… ▶364Sadness
Jackson PollockI'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. ✨ Elizabeth Frank, J… ▶342SadnessTime
Jackson PollockEvery good painter paints what he is. ✨ Jackson Pollock, Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1980). Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting, Icon375Sadness
Jackson PollockI'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… ▶375DeathThought
Jackson PollockWhen 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 ha… ▶364LifeSadness
Jackson PollockA real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.322Politics
Jackson PollockPeople have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell. ✨ Jackson Pollock (2011). American Letters: 1927-1947, p.16, Polity355Humanity
Jackson PollockThe painting has a life of its own ✨ Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990378LifeSadness
Jackson PollockI don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident ✨ Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990379Sadness
Jackson PollockI can control the flow of paint: there is no accident. ✨ Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Book by Ines Janet, 2007.303ReadingSadness
Jackson PollockHe drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. ✨ Claude Cernuschi, Jackson Pollock (1992). Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance,… ▶304PhilosophySadness
Jackson PollockToday 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. ✨ Elizabeth Frank, Jack… ▶294Sadness
Jackson PollockThe painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.272Sadness
Jackson PollockIt doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.306Sadness
Jackson PollockThe strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. ✨ Jackson Pollock by Francis V. O'Connor, (p. 79), 1967.307PhilosophyThought
Jackson PollockI 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 wi… ▶264SadnessTime
Jackson PollockEnergy 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 organ… ▶231HumanityPoliticsReading
Jackson PollockThe modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. ✨ Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Galle… ▶3010Sadness
Jackson PollockIt 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. ✨ Jackson Pollock, Gagosian… ▶267PoliticsSadness
Jackson PollockI continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. ✨ Jackson Pollock (2003). Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe., Kehrer Ver… ▶245Sadness
Jackson PollockThe modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. ✨ Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). Jackson Pollock, Abbeville… ▶245Time
Jackson PollockI don't paint nature. I am nature.2710Sadness
Jackson PollockAbstract 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 complime… ▶216Sadness
Jackson PollockI have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. ✨ Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). Jackson Pollock: black … ▶249LifeSadness
Jackson PollockWhen 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.151Sadness
