Jackson Pollock Quotes
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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Painting is a state of being.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
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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.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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I don't paint nature. I am nature.
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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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How do you know when you're finished making love?
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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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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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Art is coming face to face with yourself.
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There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.
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Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.
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When 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.
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
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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.
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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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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I 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 with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.
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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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Energy 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 organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance.
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The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
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You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.
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All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves.
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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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