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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock
Age: 44 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 28
Died: 1956
Died: August 11
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I do not paint nature. I am nature.
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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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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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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
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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 am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work
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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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The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
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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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