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Jackson Pollock Quotes

Jackson Pollock quotes

American Artist January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956

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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
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
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
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
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
Jackson Pollock quote: "Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far..."
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall. 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
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
Jackson Pollock quote: "I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting."
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock quote: "When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock quote: "My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same..."
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout. Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock quote: "It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as..."
It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said. Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock quote: "My painting does not come from the easel."
My painting does not come from the easel. Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock quote: "I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools..."
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. Jackson Pollock

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