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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
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Jackson Pollock
Age: 44 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 28
Died: 1956
Died: August 11
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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.
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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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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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I do not paint nature. I am nature.
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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'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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A man's life is his work his work is his life.
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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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The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
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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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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 hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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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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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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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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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... 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.
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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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