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The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

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
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The painting has a life of its own
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Art is coming face to face with yourself.
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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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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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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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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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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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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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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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'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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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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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'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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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