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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.

Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock
Age: 44 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 28
Died: 1956
Died: August 11
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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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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