When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident..

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. H….

My painting does not come from the easel..

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

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them..

With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny t….

In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?.

I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black - with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing - ….

The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American….

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within..

Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital wo….

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said..

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is..

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief..

I do not paint nature. I am nature..

A canvas is an arena in which to act..

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result..

I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot expre….

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriv….

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing..