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A Court cannot give itself jurisdiction by misconstruing a document or statute.
I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural..
I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident..
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.
Jackson Pollock (1967)
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.
Francis V. O'Connor (1967)
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.
Pollock in a radio interview (1951)
I always said, I will be my client's advocate, not his agent. To hire himself to any particular course, is a position in which no member of the profession ought to place himself.
My concern is with the rhythms of nature.. .I work inside out, like nature.
Leonhard Emmerling (2003)
The test as to whether the amendment should be allowed is whether or not the defendants can amend without placing the plaintiff in such a position that he cannot be recouped, as it were, by any allowance of costs or otherwise.
As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially.
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...
Interview by William Wright (1950)
Naturally, the result is the thing [in painting] and it doesnvery vibrantt 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.
Interview by William Wright (1950)
Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance
I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don’t think there’s anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn’t unusual – the Orientals did that.
I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today – the more immediate, the more direct – the greater the possibilities of making a direct – of making a statement.
Interview by William Wright (1950)