105 Quotes by Jackson Pollock

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

I do not paint nature. I am nature.

The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd... And in another sense, the problem doesn't exist at all; or, if it did, would solve itself: An American is an American and his painting would naturally be qualified by the fact, whether he wills or not. But the basic problems of contemporary painting are independent of any one country.

How do you know when you're finished making love?

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.