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How do you know when you're finished making love?

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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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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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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
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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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The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
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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. 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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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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