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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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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.
Jackson Pollock
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.
Jackson Pollock
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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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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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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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.
Jackson Pollock
How do you know when you're finished making love?
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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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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
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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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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I do not paint nature. I am nature.
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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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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... 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.
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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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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock
I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
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