Quotes by Jackson Pollock

Every good painter paints what he is.

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.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

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

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.

My painting does not come from the easel.

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