Pollock Quotes

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.