Jackson Pollock Quotes About Abstract Expressionism
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
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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.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he 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.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct.
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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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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.
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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.
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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.
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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 no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
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