Classic Quotes by Jackson Pollock

1912-1956

American painter

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.

How do you know when you’re finished making love? [responding to the question: How do you know when you're finished?]

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.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid
paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

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.