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Jackson Pollock

Read through the most famous quotes from Jackson Pollock




I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.


— Jackson Pollock


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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.


— Jackson Pollock


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


— Jackson Pollock


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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.


— 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'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.


— Jackson Pollock


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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.


— Jackson Pollock


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


— Jackson Pollock


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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.


— Jackson Pollock


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


— Jackson Pollock


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About Jackson Pollock

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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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