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Jackson Pollock Quotes

Jackson Pollock Quotes.

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
A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
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 modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
Jackson Pollock
When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing.
Jackson Pollock
If people would just look at the paintings, I don’t think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It’s like looking at a bed of flowers, you don’t tear your hair out over what it means.
Jackson Pollock
There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.
Jackson Pollock
A canvas is an arena in which to act.
Jackson Pollock
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock
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.
Jackson Pollock
Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you’re not painting.
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
Art is coming face to face with yourself.
Jackson Pollock
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
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn’t have as far to fall.
Jackson Pollock
You can’t learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.
Jackson Pollock
I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Jackson Pollock
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 other inner forces.
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
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.
Jackson Pollock
It seems to me that 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. Each age find its own technique.
Jackson Pollock
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
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
Jackson Pollock
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
It doesn’t matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
Jackson Pollock
I don’t work from drawings. I don’t make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
Jackson Pollock
I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.
Jackson Pollock
Love is friendship set to music.
Jackson Pollock