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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
Artist
Drawer
Painter
Printmaker
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Wyoming
Paul Jackson Pollock
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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Art is coming face to face with yourself.
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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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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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The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
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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 don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
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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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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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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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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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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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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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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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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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