Pollock Quotes
23 quotes by 19 authors
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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…
— Agnes Martin
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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…
— Willem de Kooning
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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…
— Henry Flynt
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The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student,…
— LeRoy Neiman
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And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
— Donald Judd
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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.…
— Gerhard Richter
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Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
— Donald Judd
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In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.
— Lee Krasner
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Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.
— Eva Hesse
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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…
— Bill Viola
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If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
— Damien Hirst
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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?
— Jackson Pollock
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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…
— Jerry Saltz
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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…
— Jerry Saltz
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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…
— Patti Smith
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I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.
— Taylor Swift
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The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors…
— Michael Heizer
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Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I was into the…
— Matt Schulze
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Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.
— Kenneth Noland
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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…
— Kenneth Noland
Who Wrote These Pollock Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 23 Pollock Quotes as follows: