A biography for Jackson Pollockhasn’t been written yet.
“The painting has a life of its own”
“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
“The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”
“Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.”
“Love is friendship set to music.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.”