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Quotes from Interview by William Wright — Jackson Pollock

1912–1956 United States

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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)

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)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jackson Pollock (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.