1:16:01
How do you do, sir? Hi, Mom.
1:16:04
- Thank you. Beautiful work.
- Thanks.
1:16:08
Pollock showed 30 pictures
last fall and sold all but five...
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...and his collectors
are nibbling at those.
1:16:14
Mr. Pollock, in your opinion,
what is the meaning of modern art?
1:16:23
Modern art, to me...
1:16:26
...is nothing more than the expression
of the contemporary aims...
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...of the age we're living in.
1:16:36
Did the classical artists have
any means of expressing their age?
1:16:41
Yes, and they did it very well.
1:16:44
All cultures have had means
and techniques of expressing their...
1:16:52
...immediate aims.
1:16:57
The thing that interests me
is that today...
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...painters do not have to go to
a subject matter outside of themselves.
1:17:08
They work from a different source.
They work from within.
1:17:15
It seems to me that the modern artist
cannot express this age...
1:17:20
...the airplane,
the atom bomb, the radio...
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...in the old forms of the Renaissance
or any other past culture.
1:17:30
How do you get the paint on the canvas?
I understand you don't use brushes.
1:17:37
I paint on the floor.
1:17:41
That's not unusual.
The Orientals did that.
1:17:46
Most of the paint I use is a liquid,
flowing kind of paint.
1:17:51
The brushes I use
are used more as sticks.
1:17:56
The brush doesn't actually touch
the canvas, but just above it.