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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

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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The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
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How do you know when you're finished making love?
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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
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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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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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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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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 modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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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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A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
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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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Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in spaceTechnic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance.
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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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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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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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The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely
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