Quotes by Jackson Pollock

“Love is friendship set to music.”

“The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”

“every good artist paints what he is”

“Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.”

“The painting has a life of its own”

“The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”

“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 ra...”

“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”

“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.”

“My painting does not come from the easel.”

“The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.”

“Every good painter paints what he is.”

“As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been wi...”

“I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural..”

“My painting does not come from the easel. I hardly ever stretch my canvas before painting. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard sur...”

“When I am in my painting, I am not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a short of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying t...”

“Technic 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...”

“I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident..”

“I accept the fact that the important painting of the last hundred years was done in France. American painters have generally missed the point of modern painting from beginning to end.. .Thus the fa...”

“The idea of an isolated American painting, so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd.. .And ...”