Jackson Pollock Quotations

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.

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.

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

Painting is a state of being.

I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.

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

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.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

A man's life is his work; his work is his life.

Technic 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