Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock, known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth28 January 1912
CityCody, WY
CountryUnited States of America
Jackson Pollock quotes about
artist color drawing
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
addiction making-love greys-anatomy
How do you know when you're finished making love?
paint
I do not paint nature. I am nature.
causes expressionism deny
I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
artist discovery self
Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
no-fear painting making-changes
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.
glasses knives broken
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.
artist littles 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.
painting canvas
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
kind painting realism
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
ease
On the floor I am more at ease,
rhythm concern
My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
death sleep thinking
I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.
friendship real thousand
A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.