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.
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.
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.
artist serenity world
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
art paint artist
Every good painter paints what he is.
artist etc painting
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
mean artist abstract-painting
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.