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As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.
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Abstract
Active
Artist
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My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway.
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Broadway
University
Studio
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In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.
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Late
Names
Pollock
Unheard
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I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.
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Time
Being Alone
Needs
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I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.
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Able
Artist
Never Change
Changes
Image
Whose
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I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.
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Doe
Painting
Thinking
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I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.
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Painting
Thinking
Trouble
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The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.
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Artist
Keys
Paint
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I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.
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Believe
Crystals
Past
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Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.
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Men
Inevitable
Inseparable
Moving
Painting
Technique
Inner
Outer
Realm
Subject
Transcends
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I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.
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Alive
Breathe
Canvas
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People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.
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War
Affected
Army
Mean
Paint
Otherwise
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I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.
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Handful
Littles
People
Ten
Work People Know
Studio
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We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.
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Kind
Necks
Used
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The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she needed.
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Assistants
Mural
Size
Ten
Anywhere
Depending
Procedure
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Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.
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Understood
Vitality
Acknowledged
French
Experienced
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The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met.
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Village
Unknown
Accumulate
Corner
Jumble
Shop
Wherever
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With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
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Communication
Dinner
Landscape
Porch
Quiet
Solitude
Inner
Jackson
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Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.
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Men
Mean
Painting
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My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.
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Depression
Consistency
Depressing
Despite
Painful
Sooner
Breaks
Define
Holds
Image
Occurs
Settle
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Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.
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Gallery
Caused
Began
Opened
Peggy
Showing
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I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western. I know it is essential for me. I listen to it and I stay with it. I have always been this way. I have regards for the inner voice.
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Essentials
Intuition
Voice
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All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.
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Conformity
Moving
Swings
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At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.
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Abstract
Drawing
People
Two
Model
One Or Two
Otherwise
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One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.
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Men
Goes On
Squares
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You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in.
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Accepted
Selection
Submit
Held
How Much
Send
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I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.
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Challenges
Media
Thinking
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I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.
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Fighting
Two
Years
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