Jackson Pollock Quotes
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I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident..
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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'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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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn't touch the surface on the canvas, it's just above.. ..so I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.
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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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature.. .I work inside out, like nature.
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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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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
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I am nature.