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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.
Jackson Pollock
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Jackson Pollock
Age: 44 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 28
Died: 1956
Died: August 11
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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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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective 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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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 don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
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