Jackson Pollock Short Quotes

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My concern is with the rhythms of nature... I work inside out, like nature.

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

Jackson Pollock
I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural..

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Each age finds its own technique... I mean, the strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Jackson Pollock
The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

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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. It was a fine compliment.

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The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject-matter outside themselves. Modern painters work in a different way. They work from within.

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It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express his age, the airplane the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of Renaissance or of any past culture. Each age finds its own technique...

Jackson Pollock
On his painting 'She wolf':
It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it.

Jackson Pollock