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
flow paint i-can
I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.
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.
ease
On the floor I am more at ease,
flow painting notion
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.
long talent study
I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work
mean technique arriving
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
giving trying etc
When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. 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.
moving ease able
Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.
rhythm concern
My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
paint
I do not paint nature. I am nature.
country independent ideas
The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd... And in another sense, the problem doesn't exist at all; or, if it did, would solve itself: An American is an American and his painting would naturally be qualified by the fact, whether he wills or not. But the basic problems of contemporary painting are independent of any one country.
addiction making-love greys-anatomy
How do you know when you're finished making love?
artist color drawing
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
thieves locks break
The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.