Jackson Pollock

The painting has a life of its own

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

every good artist paints what he is

The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Love is friendship set to music.

Every good painter paints what he is.

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

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.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

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.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.