Jackson Pollock Quotes

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to do.

I always start a painting with the sky.

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.