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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
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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
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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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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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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 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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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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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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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
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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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The painting has a life of its own
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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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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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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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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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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
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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 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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