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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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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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A man's life is his work his work is his life.
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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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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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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 am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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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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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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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 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 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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