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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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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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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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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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The painting has a life of its own
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A man's life is his work his work is his life.
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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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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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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
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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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Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.
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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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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 hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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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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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
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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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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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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