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A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
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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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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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.
Jackson Pollock
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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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
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Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in spaceTechnic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance.
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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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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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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 don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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Art is coming face to face with yourself.
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A man's life is his work his work is his life.
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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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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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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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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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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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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