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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
Jackson Pollock
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Jackson Pollock
Age: 44 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 28
Died: 1956
Died: August 11
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Wyoming
Paul Jackson Pollock
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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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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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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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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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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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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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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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A man's life is his work his work is his life.
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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'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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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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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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How do you know when you're finished making love?
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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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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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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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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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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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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