Quote #3

'My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. 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.' -Quoted in 'Jackson Pollock: is he the greatest living painter in the United States?' LIFE 8 Aug. 1949: 42-45

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  1. I am nature.
  2. Bill is a good painter but he's a French painter.
  3. 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 …
  4. I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dr…
  5. I don't work from drawings or colour sketches... I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them... I can control the flow of pai…
  6. Is this a painting?
  7. My concern is with the rhythms of nature... I work inside out, like nature.
  8. Painting is my whole life....

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