Jackson Pollock Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

  Jackson Pollock

  Abstract Painting, Compliment, Expressionism

  Quoted in FrancisVO'Connor Jackson Pollock (1967).

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

• I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Etc, Painting

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Serenity, Energy

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

• The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Thinking, Painting

  "Jackson Pollock" by Francis V. O'Connor, (p. 79), 1967.

• On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Two Sides, Ease

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

• 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

• 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

  Mean, Artist, Abstract Painting

  Interview, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 1950

• 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

  Giving, Painting, Harmony

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Painting, Problem, No Problem

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Space, Feelings

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

• The painting has a life of its own

  Jackson Pollock

  Inspirational, Art, Intuition

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Painting, Expressionism

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

• 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

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Color, Drawing

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

• 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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Creating, Want

• My painting does not come from the easel.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Doe, Architecture

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

• 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

  Drawing, Different, Use

  Interview by William Wright; as quoted in "Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics", ed. Clifford Ross, 1990, p. 144, Summer 1950.

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Fall, Painting, Wells

  Jackson Pollock (2011). “American Letters: 1927-1947”, p.36, Polity

• 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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Littles, Painting

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Painting, Canvas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Thinking, Drawing, Finals

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

• Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here - is - away from the easel - into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  New York, Wall, Taken

  "Interview by William Wright". as quoted in "Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics", ed. Clifford Ross, 1990, p.144, Summer 1950.

• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Usual, Tools

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

• 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

  Giving, Trying, Etc

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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