Jackson Pollock Quotes

American - Artist January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956

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

Jackson Pollock

Good Art Painting Artist He

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

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Life Painting Try Own

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.

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Man Game Building Construction

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

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I Am Painting Doing Am

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.

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Age Culture Past Airplane

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

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Words World Energy Artist

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.

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Long Difference Said Paint

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

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Art Think Wear Will

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

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Life Fear Art Painting Changes

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.

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Life Painting Doing See

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

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Tools Get Away Continue

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.

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Work Today Go Matter

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.

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Time You Painting Your

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.

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Beginning You Painting End

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

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Time Art Space Feelings

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.

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Work I Am Walk Painting

Every good painter paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock

Good Art He Every Painter

My painting does not come from the easel.

Jackson Pollock

Art Painting Come Does

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.

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Harmony Painting Result Lose

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

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Day Fall Far Bums

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

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Depend Same Interest Center

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

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Painting Canvas Before Stretch

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Jackson Pollock

Me Painting Hard Right

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

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Work Color Painting Make

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