The method of painting is the natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.... I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.
ATTRIBUTION:
Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), U.S. artist. repr. In Bryan Robertson, Jackson Pollock (1960). Narrative for film by Hans Nemuth and Paul Falkenberg (1951).
