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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
Painting
Work
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" When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. "
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Am
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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. "
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Past
New
Need
" 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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Building
Pen
Game
" The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. "
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Than
Space
Time
" My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout. "
Jackson Pollock
Interest
Depend
Center
" I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. "
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Painting
Own
Life
" I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. "
Jackson Pollock
Away
Painter
Get
" The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. "
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Come
Through
Try
" 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
Difference
Paint
Long
" Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall. "
Jackson Pollock
Fall
Bums
Well-To-Do
" Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. "
Jackson Pollock
Art
He
Artist
" He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. "
Jackson Pollock
Painting
Hard
Kind
" 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
Work
I Can
I Am
" The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. "
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Think
Wear
Art
" Every good painter paints what he is. "
Jackson Pollock
Good
Painter
Paints
" 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. "
Jackson Pollock
Pictures
You
Beginning
" 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
Painting
Your
Time
" 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
Source
Go
Matter
" I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. "
Jackson Pollock
Stretch
Before
Canvas
" My painting does not come from the easel. "
Jackson Pollock
Come
Does
Art
" 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. "
Jackson Pollock
See
Changes
Doing
" The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. "
Jackson Pollock
Energy
Artist
Words