Jackson Pollock quotes

" The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. " # Life and Living # Arts and Artists # Painters and Painting

" 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. " # Critics and Criticism # Compliments # Arts and Artists

" My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. 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. " # Life and Living # Arts and Artists # Love

" When I am in my 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 fear of 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. " # Change # Life and Living # Happiness

" Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall. " # Hobos # Love # Travel and Tourism

" I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added. " # Royalty # Arts and Artists # Friends and Friendship

" I don't work from drawings or colour sketches... I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them... I can control the flow of paint, there is no accident, just as there is no beginning or no end. " # Life and Living # Love # Arts and Artists

" Is this a painting? " # Painters and Painting

" Painting is my whole life... " # Painters and Painting # Life and Living # Arts and Artists

" Something in me knows where I'm going, and — well, painting is a state of being. " # Painters and Painting # Love # Arts and Artists