American - Artist | January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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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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My painting does not come from the easel.
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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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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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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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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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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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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