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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
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Wyoming
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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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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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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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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 am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work
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A man's life is his work his work is his life.
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