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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

— Jackson Pollock

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Pollock wrote this text on the back of a photo of himself taken in his own studio.

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