The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Artistic process Creativity Painting Art

Author

Jackson Pollock

Source

Possibilities

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

United States

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Citation

Pollock, Jackson. "My Painting." Possibilities, no. 1, Winter 1947-1948, p. 79.

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How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
1946 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 7.

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Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, translated by Peter Bien. Simon & Schuster, 2014, ch. 7.

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

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Topic
Discovery Originality Creativity
Speaker
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Quoted in The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, written by Irving John Good. Heinemann, 1962, ch. 1, sect. 6.