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

Jackson Pollock

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Topic

Self-discovery Self-expression Artistic expression Painting Art

Speaker

Jackson Pollock

Source

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

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

United States

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Pollock, Jackson. Interview with Selden Rodman. Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman. Capricorn Books, 1961, p. 82.

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag

Freak Show

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Topic
Modern art Power of art Art

Author

Susan Sontag
Source
Freak Show The New York Review of Books
Medium
Essay Magazine
Language
English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Sontag, Susan. "Freak Show." The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 1973.

Current Citation

Sontag, Susan. "America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly." On Photography. Picador, 2001.