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Art is coming face to face with yourself.

Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock
Age: 44 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 28
Died: 1956
Died: August 11
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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I do not paint nature. I am nature.
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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
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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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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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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I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the 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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The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
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Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.
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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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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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