Jackson Pollock Quotes

• Love is friendship set to music.

  Jackson Pollock

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

  Jackson Pollock

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  Tags in Expressing, Illustrating, Artist, Feelings

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

  Jackson Pollock

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  Tags in Painting, Creative, Artist

• 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

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  Tags in Painting, Change

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

  Jackson Pollock

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• 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

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  Tags in Arriving, Artist, Difference

• My painting does not come from the easel.

  Jackson Pollock

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  Tags in Does, Painting, Come

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

  Jackson Pollock

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  Tags in Paintings, Interest

• Every good painter paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

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  Tags in Paints, Good, Painter, Every

• 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

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  Tags in Pain

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

  Jackson Pollock

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  Tags in Palette, Painter

• 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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Tags in Compliment, Hapless, Reviewer

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Tags in Bounced, Drove, Realism

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

  Jackson Pollock

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  Tags in Painting, Drawings, Sketches

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Tags in Canvas, Hardly

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

  Jackson Pollock

• 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.

  Jackson Pollock

• 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

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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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Motion, Inner

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Topics in Art

Jackson Pollock (25)

Birth:	28th January, 1912
Death:	11th August, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Painter

About

Paul Jackson Pollock, known professionally as Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, USA. He was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy. In 1998 and 1999, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London.

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