Jackson Pollock Quotes - Page 2

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• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

  Jackson Pollock

  Glasses, Knives, Broken

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

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• I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Etc, Painting

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

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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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Mean, Differences

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

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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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Two Sides, Ease

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

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• People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

  Jackson Pollock

  People, Bored, Shells

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

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• I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.

  Jackson Pollock

  Feelings, Want, Emotion

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• Painting is a state of being.

  Jackson Pollock

  Painting, States

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

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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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Death, Sleep, Thinking

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• In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?

  Jackson Pollock

  Making Love, Pollock, Response

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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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Different, Matter

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

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Painting, Interest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A man's life is his work; his work is his life.

  Jackson Pollock

  Men, Life Is

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• Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. 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. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Mean, Expression

  Interview with William Wright, 1950.

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• Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Expression, Age

  "Interview by William Wright, Summer 1950". "Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics" by Clifford Ross (p. 140), 1990.

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• Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

  Jackson Pollock

  Abstract Painting, Compliment, Expressionism

  Quoted in FrancisVO'Connor Jackson Pollock (1967).

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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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• Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Technique, Arriving

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

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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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Giving, Painting, Harmony

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

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• I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

  Jackson Pollock

  Use, Deny, Expressionism

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

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• With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct.

  Jackson Pollock

  Drawing, Different, Use

  Interview by William Wright; as quoted in "Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics", ed. Clifford Ross, 1990, p. 144, Summer 1950.

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• Every good painter paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Paint, Artist

  Jackson Pollock, Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1980). “Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting”, Icon

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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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, May, Abstract

  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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• He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Painting, Kind, Realism

  Claude Cernuschi, Jackson Pollock (1992). “Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance”, HarperCollins

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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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