Painting is self-discovery. ...

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
 Jackson Pollock

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Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.
 Jackson Pollock
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.
 Jackson Pollock
It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
 Jackson Pollock
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
 Jackson Pollock
Every good painter paints what he is.
 Jackson Pollock