Jackson Pollock Quotes

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

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

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

One paints with one's head, not one's hand.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that was nearby. Maybe that way he was always photographing himself.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit.

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.