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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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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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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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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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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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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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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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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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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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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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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
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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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The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
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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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