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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
— Jackson Pollock
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Jackson Pollock
painter, draftsperson, printmaker
1912 – 1956
Paul Jackson Pollock was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, he was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. It was called all-over painting and action painting, because Pollock covered the entire canvas and used the force of his whole body to paint, often in a frenetic dancing style. This extreme form of abstraction divided critics: some praised the immediacy of the creation, while others derided the random effects.
All Quotes by Jackson Pollock
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My painting does not come from the easel.
— Jackson Pollock
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
— Jackson Pollock
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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.
— Jackson Pollock
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Every good painter paints what he is.
— Jackson Pollock
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Every good painter paints what he is.
— Jackson Pollock
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
— Jackson Pollock
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
— Jackson Pollock
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
— Jackson Pollock