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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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" Every good painter paints what he is. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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. "

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

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" I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. "

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