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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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Ambition, Study

  Jackson Pollock (2011). “American Letters: 1927-1947”, p.16, Polity

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• I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct - the greater the possibilities of making a direct - of making a statement.

  Jackson Pollock

  Thinking, Drawing, Finals

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.

  Jackson Pollock

  Thinking, Artist, Growth

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• The painting has a life of its own

  Jackson Pollock

  Inspirational, Art, Intuition

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above
  [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.

  Jackson Pollock

  Moving, Use, Ease

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

  Jackson Pollock

  Thieves, Locks, Break

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• My painting does not come from the easel.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Doe, Architecture

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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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

  Jackson Pollock

  Arriving, Painting, States

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Technique

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Thinking, Painting

  "Jackson Pollock" by Francis V. O'Connor, (p. 79), 1967.

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• The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy , the motion and the other inner forces ... the modern artist is working with space and time , and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Space

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• How do you know when you're finished making love?

  Jackson Pollock

  Addiction, Making Love, Grey's Anatomy

  "Character: Jackson Pollock". "Pollock", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Color, Drawing

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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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

  Jackson Pollock

  Long, Study, Talent

  Jackson Pollock (2011). “American Letters: 1927-1947”, p.16, Polity

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• The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd... And in another sense, the problem doesn't exist at all; or, if it did, would solve itself: An American is an American and his painting would naturally be qualified by the fact, whether he wills or not. But the basic problems of contemporary painting are independent of any one country.

  Jackson Pollock

  Country, Independent, Ideas

  Jackson Pollock (1958). “Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956”

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Usual, Tools

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Creating, Want

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• A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Feelings, Growth

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• Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance

  Jackson Pollock

  Memories, Acceptance, Order

  "Abstract Expressionism". Book by David Anfam, p. 121, 1990.

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• Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

  Jackson Pollock

  Different, Modern, Source

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• On the floor I am more at ease.

  Jackson Pollock

  Ease

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Airplane, Mean, Artist

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Chinese, Technique

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Flow, Painting, Notion

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• Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

  Jackson Pollock

  Fall, Painting, Wells

  Jackson Pollock (2011). “American Letters: 1927-1947”, p.36, Polity

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