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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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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 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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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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Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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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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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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work
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