“My concern is with the rhythms of nature... I work inside out, like nature.”

— Jackson Pollock

Quoted in Leonhard Emmerling (2003) Jackson Pollock: 1912-1956 Taschen, p. 48
in posthumous publications

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American artist 1912–1956

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