105 Quotes by Jackson Pollock

My painting does not come from the easel.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

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

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.