[b]Jackson Pollock
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.[/b]
Some of us will never understand this. I know that I don’t.
I don’t use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident.
Well, good for him.
I don’t paint nature. I am nature.
Of course we’re all nature.
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that 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.
What does this explain? Something between everything and nothing at all.
The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely.
What future do we point to here?
The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
How dumb is that? At least the part that’s not brilliant.