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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.
Jackson Pollock
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Jackson Pollock
Age: 44 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 28
Died: 1956
Died: August 11
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A man's life is his work his work is his life.
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My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.
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