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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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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'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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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before 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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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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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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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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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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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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 do not paint nature. I am nature.
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
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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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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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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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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 secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
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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 am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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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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