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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.

Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock
Age: 44 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 28
Died: 1956
Died: August 11
Artist
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Painter
Printmaker
Cody
Wyoming
Paul Jackson Pollock
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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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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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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.
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The painting has a life of its own
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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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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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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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 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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The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
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I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.
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A man's life is his work his work is his life.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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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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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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