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Jackson Pollock
American
Artist
About the author
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,
American
Artist
#Building
#Earth
#Man
#Pen
#Artist
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Interest
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,
American
Artist
#Work
#Painting
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Self
#Painting
#Artist
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Time
#Artist
#Space
#Feelings
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Words
#World
#Energy
#Artist
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Life
#Painting
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Will
#Art
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Painting
My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Painting
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,
American
Artist
#Life
#Painting
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,
American
Artist
#Work
#Today
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
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,
American
Artist
#Past
#Needs
#Old
#Culture
#Age
#Artists
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Day
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,
American
Artist
#End
#Painting
#Beginning
#Compliment
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Right
#Painting
#Realism
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Tools
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Work
#Painting
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Painting
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock,
American
Artist
#Life
#Fear
#Painting
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,
American
Artist
#Time
#Unconscious
#Painting
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,
American
Artist
#Difference
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,
American
Artist
#Harmony
#Result
#Painting