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Is this a painting?

— Jackson Pollock

More from Jackson Pollock

  1. 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…
  2. My concern is with the rhythms of nature... I work inside out, like nature.
  3. 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…
  4. Painting is my whole life....
  5. Bill is a good painter but he's a French painter.
  6. Something in me knows where I'm going, and - well, painting is a state of being.
  7. '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 …
  8. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

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Topics in this quote

  • art
  • painting
  • definition
  • modernism
  • perception

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