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A man's life is his work his work is his life.

Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock
Age: 44 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 28
Died: 1956
Died: August 11
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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
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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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
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I do not paint nature. I am nature.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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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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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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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The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
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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'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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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 don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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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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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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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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