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I want to express my feelings...

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

I've been thinking of death a...

I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

How do you know when you're f...

How do you know when you're finished making love?

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

Well, painting today certainl...

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 115 quotes

My opinion is that new needs ...

My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

Most of the paint I use is a ...

Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

Modern art to me is nothing m...

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

The modern artist is living i...

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

Something in me knows where I...

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

In response to the question, ...

In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

If people would just look at ...

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 115 quotes

I don't work from drawings an...

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 115 quotes

Technique is just a means of ...

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

It [abstract art] should be en...

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

On the floor I am more at ease...

On the floor I am more at ease,

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

When I'm painting, I'm not awa...

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

How do you know when you're fi...

How do you know when you're finished making love?

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

Abstract painting is abstract....

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you....

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

People have always frightened ...

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

I continue to get further away...

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

Jackson Pollock 115 quotes

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