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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 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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How do you know when you're finished making love?
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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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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Art is coming face to face with yourself.
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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 do not paint nature. I am nature.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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 want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
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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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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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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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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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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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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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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