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title: "4 Canvas Quotes By Jackson Pollock"
description: "4 Canvas quotes by Jackson Pollock. Plus more from Jackson Pollock and more Canvas sayings from other authors."
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> [Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/most-of-the-paint-i-use-is-a-liquid-flowing-kind-of-paint-the-brushes/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f6/jackson-pollock-8264_able_most-of-the-paint-i-use-is-a-liquid-flow_2018458.jpg)

> [I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/i-hardly-ever-stretch-the-canvas-before-painting/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/816/jackson-pollock-8264_artist_i-hardly-ever-stretch-the-canvas-before_2524419.jpg)

> [I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black - with some of my early images coming thru -, think the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/i-ve-had-a-period-of-drawing-on-canvas-in-black-with-some-of-my-early/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5d/jackson-pollock-8264_artist_i-ve-had-a-period-of-drawing-on-canvas-i_3001415.jpg)

> [A canvas is an arena in which to act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/a-canvas-is-an-arena-in-which-to-act/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99a/jackson-pollock-8264_arena_a-canvas-is-an-arena-in-which-to-act-316_3166707.jpg)

## Other authors on Canvas

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-anna-bartlett-warner-13611.jpg) Philip Guston 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/philip-guston/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pablo-picasso-73081.jpg) Pablo Picasso 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/pablo-picasso/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/henry-david-thoreau/)
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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-vincent-van-gogh-93793.jpg) Vincent Van Gogh 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/vincent-van-gogh/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bernard-beckett-17293.jpg) Charles Webster Hawthorne 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/charles-webster-hawthorne/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-wassily-kandinsky-94601.jpg) Wassily Kandinsky 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/wassily-kandinsky/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alfred-jodl-11301.jpg) John Constable 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/john-constable/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-joan-miro-50198.jpg) Joan Miro 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/joan-miro/)

## More by Jackson Pollock

> [If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/if-people-would-just-look-at-the-paintings-i-don-t-think-they-would/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/the-modern-artist-is-working-and-expressing-an-inner-world-in-other/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/he-drove-his-kind-of-realism-at-me-so-hard-i-bounced-right-into/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/when-i-m-painting-i-m-not-aware-of-what-i-m-doing-it-s-only-after-a/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/i-have-no-fear-of-making-changes-destroying-the-image-etc-because-the/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/i-can-control-the-flow-of-paint-there-is-no-accident/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/the-modern-artist-is-living-in-a-mechanical-age-and-we-have-a/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/as-to-what-i-would-like-to-be-it-is-difficult-to-say-an-artist-of/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/it-is-only-when-i-lose-contact-with-the-painting-that-the-result-is-a/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/the-strangeness-will-wear-off-and-i-think-we-will-discover-the-deeper/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [Every good painter paints what he is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/every-good-painter-paints-what-he-is/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/modern-art-to-me-is-nothing-more-than-the-expression-of-contemporary/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [I don't paint nature. I am nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/i-don-t-paint-nature-i-am-nature/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/with-experience-it-seems-to-be-possible-to-control-the-flow-of-paint/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

> [When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pollock/when-i-am-in-my-painting-i-m-not-aware-of-what-i-m-doing/)

[Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pollock/)

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