Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
More Quotes by Jackson Pollock
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
My painting does not come from the easel.
Every good painter paints what he is.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.