There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end. Jackson Pollock More Quotes by Jackson Pollock More Quotes From Jackson Pollock You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result. Jackson Pollock results technique trying It seems to me that 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. Each age find its own technique. Jackson Pollock airplane age past The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. Jackson Pollock serenity energy artist I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. Jackson Pollock etc painting artist My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature. Jackson Pollock rhythm concern 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 different matter art Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. Jackson Pollock abstract-painting expressionism compliment In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love? Jackson Pollock pollock response making-love Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in. Jackson Pollock expression age art I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct - the greater the possibilities of making a direct - of making a statement. Jackson Pollock finals drawing thinking My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout. Jackson Pollock painting interest artist With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct. Jackson Pollock drawing different use It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not. Jackson Pollock abstract may art Love is friendship set to music. Jackson Pollock best-love music friendship People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell. Jackson Pollock shells bored people 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. Jackson Pollock two-sides ease art A man's life is his work; his work is his life. Jackson Pollock life-is men He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. Jackson Pollock realism painting kind Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that. Jackson Pollock growth artist thinking 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 harmony painting giving
