Jackson Pollock Quotes about Art

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

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

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

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Every good painter paints what he is.

The painting has a life of its own

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.

My painting does not come from the easel.

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