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 PollockRead
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects a strong influence of realism on the speaker's artistic approach, leading to an exploration of abstract art.
In this quote, Jackson Pollock describes the impact that a particular kind of realism had on him, suggesting that the forcefulness of this influence propelled him into the realm of nonobjective painting. It highlights the dynamic between different art styles and how one can lead an artist to explore innovative forms of expression, emphasizing the transformative power of artistic inspiration.
Themes
RealismPaintingAbstract ArtInfluenceArtistic Expression
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used during an art class to discuss the evolution of artistic styles.
More from Jackson Pollock
All quotes βI don't paint nature. I am nature.
Jackson PollockRead
I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
Jackson PollockRead
My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson PollockRead
I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.
Jackson PollockRead
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson PollockRead
Similar quotes
Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.
Sam AbellRead
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
Friedrich NietzscheRead
I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.
Elton JohnRead
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
Terry EagletonRead
The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.
Walter MosleyRead
I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
Queen LatifahRead