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Jackson Pollock Quotes

“Anyone looking to follow in the footsteps of Pollock, Rothko, or Mondrian is out of luck. Pollock was not interested in painting nature. He was not interested in the world or in reality itself. Rather, he painted himself, as all Modern artists must do. Imitation is a failure of self-expression. Imitation is treason, for every act of imitation looks to the past. Imitation also implies hierarchy, for a man must choose who to imitate. If he claims to imitate no one, though, he may claim success in all that he undertakes, for he has no standard outside himself by which his work can be judged.”

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Book:Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity

Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity

“I golf like a Jackson Pollock painting, but that's balanced out by the fact that I paint like Jack Nicklaus golfs. My record is finishing in 63 strokes.”

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Book:To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

Source: To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

“I golf like a Jackson Pollock painting. I splatter my shots all over the place—and then I act like I just produced a masterpiece.”

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Book:To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

Source: To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

“Today, we'll celebrate Independence Day using the backdrop of the sky as a canvas, the fireworks thrown against it bearing semblance to the drips from the hands of Jackson Pollock but we'll forget that here, in America there are still some who are not free.”

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Book:thread, this wordweaver must!

Source: thread, this wordweaver must!

“I'd rather sit next to Brian for two hours in a dark theater than have a wall painting party with Jackson Pollock”

Love I Ll Give You The Sun Jackson Pollock

Book:I'll Give You the Sun

Source: I'll Give You the Sun

“... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting.”

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Book:Solving for X

Source: Solving for X

“Dripping fervently across broad canvasses with threaded, convoluted and spectral incursions, Jackson Pollock’s art reads like runes to me. Inching towards balancing the edges of mystical eloquence, he wouldn’t have requested leisured ingress to footpaths of patented acrylics just for nothing.”

Jackson Pollock

Author:Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu