Jackson Pollock

"The modern painter cannot express this age in terms of the Renaissance or of any past culture."

"I can see only one thing absolutely necessary for sculpture or painting: an idea that means something to you."

"American painting is not lacking in vitality."

"Art ought to be something that liberates your soul."

"I want my work to have hands, feet, and a head."

"The modern painter works with a space and a time continuum."

"Art is the effort to make your dreams manifest in the world."

"I am nature and the work flows from that."

"The painting itself has become my challenge."

"Looking at paintings by Kandinsky changed my life."

"The unconscious is the only avenger of real wrongs."

"I can control the flow."

"Pollock is splashing."

"I think of my pictures as dramas."

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"I don't think the modern painter is expressing this age in terms of the Renaissance."

"Pictures must be finished."

"The paintings exist in the studio."

"I find it very difficult to think in terms of just modern art."

"The West has the best of everything."

"Art is life and life is art."

"There are moments of total exhaustion after painting."

"The canvas that leads its own existence."

"My approach with painting is the same as in life."

"I don't work from drawings or color sketches."

"Art should be life and life should be art."

"The materials are just materials."

"There is in nature a finest imaginable equipment."

"Movement is vital."

"I do not believe in myself."