Jackson Pollock

"I am nature."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"Every good painter paints what he is."

"The painting has a life of its own."

"I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them."

"There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end."

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

"My painting does not come from the easel."

"I prefer to tack the unstreched canvas to the hard wall or floor."

"When I am in the painting, I am not aware of what I am doing."

"The action painting tries to avoid any allusion."

"I think the painting has a life of its own."

"Energy and motion made visible."

"Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."

"I don't think that there is any difference between a great painter and a bad painter in the way they work."

"I am nature and nature is me."

"One needs to paint the painting itself."

"Art comes from within."

"The picture has to have a compositional sense."

"I work from the inside out, like nature."

"There is no such thing as a mistake."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how."

"I walk around it, work on it from all sides and literally paint myself into the painting."

"The size of the painting is important."

"My concern is with the rhythm of nature."

"The idea of modern painting is not to transmit an idea."

"A dripping painter needs steel nerves."

"The unconscious is celebrated."

"I don't use the accident, as I consider it."

"There is no point in looking at a painting if you don't have feelings."