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.
- Jackson Pollock Quote

Every good painter paints what he is.
- Jackson Pollock Quote

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
- Jackson Pollock Quote

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
- Jackson Pollock Quote

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

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 Quote

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.
- Jackson Pollock Quote

My painting does not come from the easel.
- Jackson Pollock Quote

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

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 Quote

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

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
- Jackson Pollock Quote

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
- Jackson Pollock Quote

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 Quote

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
- Jackson Pollock Quote

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
- Jackson Pollock Quote