In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.
quote by Frederick 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.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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Digression On Number 1, 1948
I am ill today but I am not
too ill. I am not ill at all.
It is a perfect day, warm
for winter, cold for fall.
A fine day for seeing. I see
ceramics, during lunch hour, by
Mir6, and I see the sea by Leger;
light, complicated Metzingers
and a rude awakening by Brauner,
a little table by Picasso, pink.
I am tired today but I am not
too tired. I am not tired at all.
There is the Pollock, white, harm
will not fall, his perfect hand
and the many short voyages. They'll
never fence the silver range.
Stars are out and there is sea
enough beneath the glistening earth
to bear me toward the future
which is not so dark. I see.
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Jackson Pollock's "Number 1 (1948)"
poem by Frank O'Hara
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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My painting does not come from the easel.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
quote by Channing Pollock
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It is strange how little harm bad codes do.
quote by Frederick Pollock
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Every good painter paints what he is.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
quote by Frederick Pollock
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Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
quote by Donald Judd
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.
quote by Lee Krasner
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A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
quote by Channing Pollock
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The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
quote by Frederick Pollock
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Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
quote by Frederick Pollock
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Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.
quote by Robert Rauschenberg
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