Jackson Pollock Quotes About Accidents

Quotes about: Accidents

• There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

  Jackson Pollock

  Ends, Accidents

• With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct.

  Jackson Pollock

  Drawing, Different, Use

  Interview by William Wright; as quoted in "Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics", ed. Clifford Ross, 1990, p. 144, Summer 1950.

• When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

  Jackson Pollock

  Flow, Painting, Notion

• I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

  Jackson Pollock

  Flow, Paint, Accidents

  "Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner". Book by Ines Janet, 2007.

• I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

  Jackson Pollock

  Use, Deny, Expressionism

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

• Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance

  Jackson Pollock

  Memories, Acceptance, Order

  "Abstract Expressionism". Book by David Anfam, p. 121, 1990.

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