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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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Wyoming
Paul Jackson Pollock
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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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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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
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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 hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I do not paint nature. I am 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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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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Art is coming face to face with yourself.
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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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The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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 painting has a life of its own
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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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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.
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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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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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