Best quotes by Jackson Pollock on Painting

Checkout quotes by Jackson Pollock on Painting

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

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• ‟ The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

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• ‟ My painting does not come from the easel.

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• ‟ It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

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• ‟ When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

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• ‟ I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

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• ‟ I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

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• ‟ He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

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• ‟ I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

  - Jackson Pollock