Best Pollock Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Eva Hesse: sculpture : [catalog of an exhibition held at] Whitechapel Art Gallery, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Kestner-Gesellschaft

“I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.”

Thinking Knows Use Age Used Artist House Materials Computer Paint Incredibles Oil Command Range Household Items Computer Systems Pollock

Author:Bill Viola

“If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.”

Ifs Choices Building Buying Collectors Pollock

Author:Damien Hirst

“In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?”

Knows Response Finished Do You Know Making Love Pollock

Author:Jackson Pollock

“The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.”

Pain Suffering Common Expression Elements Significant Vans Pollock Frida

Author:Billy Cannon

“I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black - with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing - and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.”

Thinking Kids Black Simple Periods Drawing Canvas Disturbing Pollock

Book:Jackson Pollock: the black pourings, 1951-1953

Source: Jackson Pollock: the black pourings, 1951-1953

“It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.”

Impossible Originals Eras Modernism Postmodern Pollock

Author:Irving Sandler

“I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and de Kooning, one of the big boys.”

Want Bigs Wanted Space Boys Pollock

Author:Stella Vine

“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.”

Wells Reason Artist Known Method Well Known Great Art Great Artist Unconventional Wrong Reasons Pollock

Author:Kenneth Noland

“Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.”

May Art Facts Poetry Literature Doubt Pollock

Author:John Ashbery

“Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive."”

People World Feels Said Alive This World Like You Toms I Like You Pollock Why I Like You

Author:Tom Robbins

“The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.”

“Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"”

Pieces Painting Crap Pollock

Author:Rob Long

“To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.”

Way Needs Paint Handle Dancer Ballet Ballet Dancer Pollock

Author:Pat Steir

“As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Connelly's mere presence in a film guarantees that things will turn out badly for the male lead, as Connelly is always cast as the Angel of Death. Fun to hang out with, great eyes, amazing eyebrows, but the Angel of Death.”

“Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.”

Littles Art Millions Fine Okay Paint Brushes Dots Monet Pollock Kandinsky

Author:Patrick Wilson

“Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera.”

Cameras Pollock

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I think there's a real problem if you're making a film - some people have done whether it be about Jackson Pollock or about Picasso - it's difficult for actors, because they have to impersonate a person whose image is very strong in our memories or in our consciousness. It's something that's very tricky, I think.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Real Done Problem Film Actors Strong Difficult Memories Consciousness Very Strong Tricky Our Memories Real Problems Impersonate Pollock

Author:Peter Webber

“I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.”

Home Saws Museums Exhibits Dallas Pollock

Author:Owen Wilson

“I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter's Bone, and the film made from it. Larry Brown is terrific, all his work, but for me Joe in particular, also a good film, but a much better novel.”

Knows Years Made Book Lasts Film Novel Particular Winter Bones Brown Last Year Terrific Larry Good Films Pollock

Author:Joe R. Lansdale

“Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.”

Found Painting Stones Philosopher Decades Overlooked Pollock

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.”

Eye Used Found Process Products Creating Psychics Blur Pollock

Author:Jerry Saltz

“The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.”

Giving Looks Moments Artist Creative Share Painting Tools Impulse Pollock

Author:Patti Smith

“I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.”

Kind Art Beautiful Art Is Incredibles Pollock

Author:Taylor Swift

“Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.”

Thinking World Kind Art Worry This World All Kinds Ran Ecstasy Terrific Pollock

Author:Agnes Martin

“Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.”

Ideas Hell Painting Painter Busted Cubism Cezanne Pollock

Author:Willem de Kooning

“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!”

Bigs Guy Changed Students Paint Abstract Shock Brooms Expressionism Abstract Expressionism Pollock

Author:LeRoy Neiman

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

Radical Scientism Newman Expressionism Pollock

Author:Donald Judd

“It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or also Jackson Pollock. That's beautiful to me. But also nature. A person can be beautiful as well. And beauty is also defined as 'untouched'. Indeed, that's an ideal: that we humans are untouched and therefore beautiful.”

Humans Wells Persons Art Beautiful Pieces Painting Ideals Defined Leonardo Newman Pollock

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.”

Looks Radical Unusual Pollock

Author:Donald Judd

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

Names Late Unheard Pollock

Author:Lee Krasner