Jackson Pollock Quotes
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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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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 believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural..
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It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it. 1947, on his painting 'She wolf'
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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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Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance
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My work with Benton was important as something against which to react very strongly, later on; in this, it was better to have worked with him than with a less resistant personality who would have provided a much less strong opposition. At the same time Benton introduced me to Renaissance art. remark on his former art-teacher w:Thomas Hart Benton
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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've had a period of drawing on canvas in black – with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing – and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.
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My concern is with the rhythms of nature.. .I work inside out, like nature.
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I am nature.