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

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If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

Jackson Pollock

flower mean thinking

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock

self discovery art

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

Jackson Pollock

believe-in-yourself success inspirational

Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in spaceTechnic 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.

Jackson Pollock

space energy memories

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

abstract-painting artist mean

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

Jackson Pollock

accidents ends

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

Jackson Pollock

art-is faces art

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Jackson Pollock

artist age mean

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.

Jackson Pollock

sleep death thinking

When I am in a 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 fears about 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.

Jackson Pollock

etc trying giving

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

Jackson Pollock

arriving matter long

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

Jackson Pollock

no-problem painting problem

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Jackson Pollock

space feelings art

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.

Jackson Pollock

knives glasses broken

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

Jackson Pollock

arena canvas

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

artist men mean

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

Jackson Pollock

thousand real friendship

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.

Jackson Pollock

want feelings art

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Jackson Pollock

arriving technique mean

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

Jackson Pollock

painting expressionism artist