Quotes from Jackson Pollock

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

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.

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

My painting does not come from the easel.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

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

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.