Jackson Pollock Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.”
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“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you....”
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“It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.”
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“It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.”
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“People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.”
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“My painting does not come from the easel.”
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“When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.”
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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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“I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.”
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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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“The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.”
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“You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.”
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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 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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“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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“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.”
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“Art is coming face to face with yourself.”
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“Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.”
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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 don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.”
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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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“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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“There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.”
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“The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”
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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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“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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