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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
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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 secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.
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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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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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Art is coming face to face with yourself.
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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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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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People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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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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A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
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It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
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My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
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