Jackson Pollock Quotes
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Every good painter paints what he is.
— Jackson Pollock
I don't paint nature. I am nature.
— Jackson Pollock
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.
— Jackson Pollock
The modern artist ... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
— Jackson Pollock
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
— Jackson Pollock
The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
— Jackson Pollock
I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.
— Taylor Swift
I'd rather sit next to Brian for two hours in a dark theater than have a wall painting party with Jackson Pollock
— Jandy Nelson
My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
— Jackson Pollock
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
— Malcolm Cowley
I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
— Jackson Pollock
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
— Jackson Pollock
I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
— Jackson Pollock
Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera.
— Edward Ruscha
I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.
— Owen Wilson
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.
— Jackson Pollock
It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
— Jackson Pollock
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?
— Jackson Pollock
The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
— Jackson Pollock
Art is coming face to face with yourself.
— Jackson Pollock
I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.
— Jackson Pollock
Painting is a state of being.
— Jackson Pollock
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
— Jackson Pollock
... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting.
— Ellie Lieberman
On the floor I am more at ease,
— Jackson Pollock
There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.
— Jackson Pollock
The secret of success is ... to be fully awake to everything about you.
— Jackson Pollock
Love is friendship set to music.
— Jackson Pollock
The painting has a life of its own
— Jackson Pollock
Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.
— Yann Martel
My painting does not come from the easel.
— Jackson Pollock
The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.
— Jackson Pollock
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
— Jackson Pollock
I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work
— Jackson Pollock
I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.
— Jackson Pollock
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
— Jackson Pollock
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
— Jackson Pollock
You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.
— Jackson Pollock
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
— Jackson Pollock
A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
— Jackson Pollock
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
— Jackson Pollock
A canvas is an arena in which to act.
— Jackson Pollock
People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
— Jackson Pollock
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It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
— Jackson Pollock
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
— Jackson Pollock
A man's life is his work; his work is his life.
— Jackson Pollock
It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be originalfor anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did ... — Irving Sandler
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
— Jackson Pollock
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
— Jackson Pollock
every good artist paints what he is
— Jackson Pollock
