Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman

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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock

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Self-discovery Self-expression Artistic expression Painting Art

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Jackson Pollock

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Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman

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Interview

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English

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20th century

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Pollock, Jackson. Interviewed by Selden Rodman. c. 1956.

The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them.

Mark Rothko

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Artist and audience Art and religion Art

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Mark Rothko

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Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman

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Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

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Rothko, Mark. Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman. Capricorn Books, 1961. Originally stated in an interview with Selden Rodman in 1957.