Jackson Pollock Quotes

Most Modern Painters Work From A Different Source. They Work From Within.

I Continue To Get Further Away From The Usual Painter's Tools Such As Easel, Palette, Brushes, Etc.

I've Had A Period Of Drawing On Canvas In Black - With Some Of My Early Images Coming Thru -, Think The Non-objectivists Will Find Them Disturbing - And The Kids Who Think It Simple To Splash A 'pollock' Out.

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 The Other Inner Forces ... The Modern Artist Is Working With Space And Time , And Expressing His Feelings Rather Than Illustrating.

My Painting Does Not Come From The Easel.

The Painting Has A Life Of Its Own

Well, Method Is, It Seems To Me, A Natural Growth Out Of A Need, And From A Need The Modern Artist Has Found New Ways Of Expressing The World About Him. I Happen To Find Ways That Are Different From The Usual Techniques, Which Seems A Little Strange At The Moment, But I Don't Think There's Anything Very Different About It. I Paint On The Floor And This Isn't Unusual - The Orientals Did That.

Most Of The Paint I Use Is A Liquid, Flowing Kind Of Paint. The Brushes I Use Are More A Sticks Rather Than Brushes – The Brush Doesn’t Touch The Surface On The Canvas, It’s Just Above [so] I Am Able To Be More Free And To Have Greater Freedom And Move About The Canvas, With Greater Ease.

I Do Not Paint Nature. I Am Nature.

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.

Every Good Painter Paints What He Is.

I Don't Work From Drawings And Colour Sketches Into A Final Painting. Painting, I Think, Today - The More Immediate, The More Direct - The Greater The Possibilities Of Making A Direct - Of Making A Statement.