Jackson Pollock Quotes

I always start a painting with the sky.

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

I started painting when I was in high school.

My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a loose and free way. I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then play off that.

In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.

I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.