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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

~Jackson Pollock

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

~Jackson Pollock

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

~Jackson Pollock

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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

~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.

~Jackson Pollock

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

~Jackson Pollock

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

~Jackson Pollock

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: January 28th, 1912

Died: August 11th, 1956

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