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The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock
Age: 44 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 28
Died: 1956
Died: August 11
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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 doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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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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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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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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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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Art is coming face to face with yourself.
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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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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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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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A man's life is his work his work is his life.
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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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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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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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