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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.

— Jackson Pollock Interview by William Wright (1950)

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Jackson Pollock (1967)

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Francis V. O'Connor (1967)

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