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Jackson Pollock

"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."

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"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."

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Jackson Pollock
"On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting."

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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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"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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"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."

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"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."

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

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"Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall."

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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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"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."

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