Quote

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

Jackson Pollock

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jackson Pollock
Age: 44 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 28
Died: 1956
Died: August 11
Artist
Drawer
Painter
Printmaker
Cody
Wyoming
Paul Jackson Pollock
jackson Pollock
Coming
Face
Faces
Art

More quotes by Jackson Pollock

Image
I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work
Jackson Pollock
Image
Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
Jackson Pollock
Image
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.
Jackson Pollock
Image
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.
Jackson Pollock
Image
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Jackson Pollock
Image
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.
Jackson Pollock
Image
It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
Jackson Pollock
Image
My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.
Jackson Pollock
Image
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock
Image
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
Image
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.
Jackson Pollock
Image
The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely
Jackson Pollock
Image
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.
Jackson Pollock
Image
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
Jackson Pollock
Image
How do you know when you're finished making love?
Jackson Pollock
Image
My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
Jackson Pollock
Image
I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.
Jackson Pollock
Image
I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
Jackson Pollock
Image
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.
Jackson Pollock
Image
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.
Jackson Pollock