It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
quote by Malcolm Cowley
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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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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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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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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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Every good painter paints what he is.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
quote by Georgia O'Keeffe
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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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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
quote by Jackson Pollock
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I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
quote by Henry Flynt
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In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.