Jackson Pollock

My work is not about what I see outside, but what I feel inside.

Every form is valid if it expresses truth.

I paint from the gut.

The act of painting is the most important thing.

I don’t work from drawings or sketches.

Life is painting.

I reject the term action painting.

My paintings are unconscious revelations.

The canvas is an arena to fight on.

I’m not interested in relationships between objects.

Freedom is the goal of art.

I paint big because I want to be intimate and larger than life.

The struggle is the essence.

Art comes from necessity.

I don’t paint things. I paint something.

The inner vision is what matters.

My work is a confession.

Dripping is direct. It’s immediate.

I’m always in the painting when I paint.

Life without art is empty.