Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above Jackson Pollock More Quotes by Jackson Pollock More Quotes From Jackson Pollock 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. Jackson Pollock studyambitionart I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident Jackson Pollock denyexpressionismuse My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements. Jackson Pollock techniqueartistmean Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that 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 expressionmeanart I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. Jackson Pollock toolsusualartist A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. Jackson Pollock growthfeelingsmean Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. Jackson Pollock modernsourcedifferent I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work Jackson Pollock talentstudylong On the floor I am more at ease. Jackson Pollock ease The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result. Jackson Pollock creatingwantmean Painting is a state of being. Jackson Pollock paintingstates I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. Jackson Pollock canvaspainting 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. Jackson Pollock notionpaintingflow 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 airplaneartistmean I do not paint nature. I am nature. Jackson Pollock paint Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall. Jackson Pollock paintingwellsfall The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd... And in another sense, the problem doesn't exist at all; or, if it did, would solve itself: An American is an American and his painting would naturally be qualified by the fact, whether he wills or not. But the basic problems of contemporary painting are independent of any one country. Jackson Pollock independentcountryideas
