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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
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"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."
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"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
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"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."
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"A painting that is well composed is half finished."
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"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
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"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
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Explore more quotes by 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."
Work
"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."
Life
"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."
Beginning
"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."
Difference
"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."
Life
"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."
Time
"The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."
Time
"Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall."
Economy
"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."
Life
"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."
Interest
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