Jackson Pollock Quotes

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about.

My music relies solely on the feeling. Just the feeling.

The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when you are unnecessary.

I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.

You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.

To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.

When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

The moment you know you know you know.

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

I never ask myself how I do what I do. After all, how does it rain?