All Jackson Pollock Quotes
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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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
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
Jackson Pollock
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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.
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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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
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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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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
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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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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Jackson Pollock
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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