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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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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.
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A man's life is his work his work is his life.
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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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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.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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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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The painting has a life of its own
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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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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
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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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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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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 arriving at a statement.
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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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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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How do you know when you're finished making love?
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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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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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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