Jackson Pollock Quotes

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• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
• A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
• I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet…
• I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.
• I don't paint nature. I am nature.
• Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in space
• 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…
• When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no…
• It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.
• The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
• Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
• It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
• On the floor I am more at ease,
• When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've…
• People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid…
• How do you know when you're finished making love?
• Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you....
• I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.
• Art is coming face to face with yourself.

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