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
artist brush building choose creating earth game iron man mean plains shovel west whether
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.
american-artist life painting
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
american-artist expressing inner modern
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
art ambition study
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.
artist painting interest
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
artist paint
I don't paint nature. I am nature.
thinking artist growth
Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.
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.
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.
artist color drawing
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
painting expressionism modern-art
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
art may abstract
It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
mean artist space
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy , the motion and the other inner forces ... the modern artist is working with space and time , and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
art mean expression
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that 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.