Jackson Pollock Quotes about Painting

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

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

Painting is a state of being.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

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.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.