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I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
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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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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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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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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A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
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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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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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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 continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
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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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The painting has a life of its own
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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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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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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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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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A man's life is his work his work is his life.
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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
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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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