Jackson Pollock Quotes

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• If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

  Jackson Pollock

  Flower, Mean, Thinking

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• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• Art is coming face to face with yourself.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Faces, Art Is

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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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Abstract Painting

  Interview, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 1950

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• The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

  Jackson Pollock

  Inspirational, Success, Believe In Yourself

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• It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

  Jackson Pollock

  Long, Arriving, Matter

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• There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

  Jackson Pollock

  Ends, Accidents

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• When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. 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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Giving, Trying, Etc

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Age

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• I don't paint nature. I am nature.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Paint

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• A canvas is an arena in which to act.

  Jackson Pollock

  Arena, Canvas

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Space, Feelings

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Painting, Problem, No Problem

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• A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

  Jackson Pollock

  Friendship, Real, Thousand

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• I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Feelings, Want

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• Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in spaceTechnic 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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Memories, Space, Energy

  "Abstract Expressionism (World of Art)". Book by David Anfam, p. 121, 1990.

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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

  Artist, Serenity, Energy

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

  Jackson Pollock

  Trying, Technique, Results

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• I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

  Jackson Pollock

  Flow, Paint, Accidents

  "Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner". Book by Ines Janet, 2007.

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Painting, Expressionism

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.

  Jackson Pollock

  Feelings, Want, Emotion

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• Love is friendship set to music.

  Jackson Pollock

  Friendship, Music, Best Love

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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.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Discovery, Self

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• My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

  Jackson Pollock

  Rhythm, Concern

  Claude Cernuschi, Jackson Pollock (1992). “Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance”, HarperCollins

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