Jackson Pollock Painting Quotations

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.

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

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

My painting does not come from the easel.

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

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

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

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

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

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.

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.

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

When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. 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.

Painting is a state of being.

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.

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.