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Every good painter paints what he is.

~Jackson Pollock

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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

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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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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.

~Jackson Pollock

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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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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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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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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

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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.

~Jackson Pollock

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My painting does not come from the easel.

~Jackson Pollock

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: January 28th, 1912

Died: August 11th, 1956

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