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I do not paint nature. I am nature.

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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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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The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
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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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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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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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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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Art is coming face to face with yourself.
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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 want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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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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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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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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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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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not 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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