Jackson Pollock Quotes

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

People choose whatever projects they've seen that I've done over the years, and whichever one is their favorite is the only one they care about. But I realized that none of those were my voice or representative of what my thoughts and feelings were.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to continue making music from her perspective.

In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they believe. That's what it has to be. Otherwise it's just a product.

If I'm writing a song for Karen Harding, I know I can't impose what I want to say onto her. I literally have to get into her headspace and think, 'what does she want to say?' When it comes to my stuff, it's the same. What can I write that's true to me?

I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made prior to that.

Your music essentially reflects everything you do, everything you've been through, in the deepest part of you.

I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women... There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night... Who ever wants to know something about me... ought to look carefully at my pictures.

All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper ... who you are. That's what being an artist is all about. And when it gets done, you don't look back at it and say, Oh, I could have done that better.

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.