Jackson Pollock Quotes

American - Artist | January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

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Every good painter paints what he is.

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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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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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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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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

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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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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before 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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Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

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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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