Jackson Pollock
Quotes by Jackson Pollock
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every good artist paints what he is
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The painting has a life of its own
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Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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Love is friendship set to music.
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Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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The painting has a life of its own
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The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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every good artist paints what he is
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Love is friendship set to music.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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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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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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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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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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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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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
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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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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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