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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
Paul Jackson Pollock
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Art is coming face to face with yourself.
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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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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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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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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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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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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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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'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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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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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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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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I do not paint nature. I am nature.
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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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