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Jackson Pollock Quotes

«[A canvas is] an arena in which to act.»
Author: Jackson Pollock (Painter) | Keywords: arena, canvas
«Every good painter paints what he is.»
Author: Jackson Pollock (Painter) | Keywords: painter, paints
«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.»
Author: Jackson Pollock (Painter) | About: Painting | Keywords: comes out
«How do you know when you're finished making love? [responding to the question: How do you know when you're finished?]»
«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 paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.»
«My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.»
Author: Jackson Pollock (Painter) | Keywords: paintings
«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 accident.»
«New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.»
«Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.»
«I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.»

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