105 Quotes by Jackson Pollock

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t work from drawings. I don’t make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.