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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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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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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 do not paint nature. I am nature.
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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 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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A man's life is his work his work is his life.
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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 real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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