105 Quotes by Jackson Pollock

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

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

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.

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.

The modern artistis working and expressing an inner world in other words expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

I continue to get further away from the usual painters 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.

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.

Painting is a state of being.