Jackson Pollock Quotes

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

Obviously, something like ballet, you have music, you dance with the music and it's a very direct connection. With visual art, when there's no music that accompanies the art, such as great masterworks in a museum, you wind up interpreting what the artist is doing, how the artist made that work and what they're conveying.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

Making art is different for everyone.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

If you labor heavily upon a work of art, then part of what you are saying is, 'This is a heavy work of art.' If you happen to be trying to say something about lightness, then the art should be light as well.

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.

I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are not serious. But then, I'm also putting down subject, because like the abstract expressionists, I don't think the subject is important.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery.

Yes, I'm very expressive with my painting.

An artiste's input, her ability to create dimensions within the given space is very important.