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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

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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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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Art is coming face to face with yourself.
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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 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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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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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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I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
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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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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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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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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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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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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
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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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The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
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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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