When I'm painting, I'm not ...

When I\'m painting, I\'m not aware of what I\'m doing. It\'s only after a get acquainted period that I see what I\'ve been about. I\'ve no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
 Jackson Pollock

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Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.
 Jackson Pollock
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.
 Jackson Pollock
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 Jackson Pollock
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
 Jackson Pollock
Every good painter paints what he is.
 Jackson Pollock