Accidents Quote 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…

— Jackson Pollock

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

— Jackson Pollock

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

— 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.…

— Jackson Pollock

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

— Jackson Pollock

I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Jackson Pollock

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

— Jackson Pollock

Every good painter paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

— Jackson Pollock