Quotes About Pollock

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

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.

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.

1940s in The Tiger's Eye—a short-lived, adventuresome magazine that also featured work by Pollock, Rothko, and Still

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.

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

I have that huge print from Pollock by the piano because the influence is reciprocal. He was into hearing music while he created, and I sometimes do the opposite. I'm influenced by everything from an ant to a dream.

Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the Devil in.

It was a biochemical Jackson Pollock: a field of strings, tangles, loops.

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

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

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