When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction…

Quote by Jackson Pollock

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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get...

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get...

Art is coming face to face with yourself. That's what's wrong with Benton. He came...

Art is coming face to face with yourself. That's what's wrong with Benton. He came...

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But...

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But...

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective...

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective...

Every good painter paints what he is.

Every good painter paints what he is.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has...

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has...

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest...

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest...

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new...

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new...

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette,...

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette,...

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than...

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than...

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who...

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who...

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words -...

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words -...

My painting does not come from the easel.

My painting does not come from the easel.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the...

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the...

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into...

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into...

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a...

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a...

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he...

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he...

Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those...

Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those...