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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.

Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock
Age: 44 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 28
Died: 1956
Died: August 11
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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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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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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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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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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
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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've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.
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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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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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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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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I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
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