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Jackson Pollock Inspirational Quotes (44)

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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.
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I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
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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 - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
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A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
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Art is coming face to face with yourself.
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The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely
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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.
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Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.
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The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
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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.
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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age find its own technique.
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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in spaceTechnic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance.
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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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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.
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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.
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
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I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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