Jackson Pollock Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

• Every good painter paints what he is.

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  Art, Paint, Artist

  Jackson Pollock, Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1980). “Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting”, Icon

• The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

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  Art, Thinking, Painting

  "Jackson Pollock" by Francis V. O'Connor, (p. 79), 1967.

• On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Two Sides, Ease

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

• It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

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  Art, Mean, Differences

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

• The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Space, Feelings

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

• Art is coming face to face with yourself.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Faces, Art Is

• Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Different, Matter

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

• I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.

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  Art, Feelings, Want

• The painting has a life of its own

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  Inspirational, Art, Intuition

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

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, May, Abstract

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

• My painting does not come from the easel.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Doe, Architecture

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

• Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Mean, Expression

  Interview with William Wright, 1950.

• As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Ambition, Study

  Jackson Pollock (2011). “American Letters: 1927-1947”, p.16, Polity

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Expression, Age

  "Interview by William Wright, Summer 1950". "Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics" by Clifford Ross (p. 140), 1990.

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