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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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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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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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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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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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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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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 use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
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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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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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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
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How do you know when you're finished making love?
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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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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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Art is coming face to face with yourself.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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A man's life is his work his work is his life.
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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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