Jackson Pollock

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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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. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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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. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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Every good painter paints what he is. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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

— Jackson Pollock

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