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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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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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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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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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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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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 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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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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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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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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How do you know when you're finished making love?
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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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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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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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The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
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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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