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Jackson Pollock

Read through the most famous quotes from Jackson Pollock




Love is friendship set to music.


— Jackson Pollock


#love #music #friendship

every good artist paints what he is


— Jackson Pollock


#humanity #passion #art

The painting has a life of its own


— Jackson Pollock


#life #painting #art

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


— Jackson Pollock


#modernism #art

Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in space


— Jackson Pollock


#art

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.


— Jackson Pollock


#art

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.


— Jackson Pollock


#contact #easy #give #give and take #harmony

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


— Jackson Pollock


#day #fall #far #well-to-do

Every good painter paints what he is.


— Jackson Pollock


#every #good #painter #paints

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


— Jackson Pollock


#expressing #feelings #his #illustrating #modern






About Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock Quotes




Did you know about Jackson Pollock?

In September 2009 the art historian Henry Adams claimed in Smithsonian Magazine that Pollock had written his name in his famous painting Mural (1943) The painting is now insured for $140 million. The movie was the project of Ed Harris who portrayed Pollock and directed it. Physicists have argued over whether fractals can be used to authenticate the paintings.

Pollock died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related single-car accident; he was driving. In 2000 Pollock was the subject of the film Pollock directed by and starring Ed Harris which won an Academy Award. A larger more comprehensive exhibition of his work was held there in 1967.

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