Pollock Quotes

23 quotes by 19 authors

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
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
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
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
And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman. — Donald Judd
It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by SchÃ¶nberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or also Jackson Pollock.… — Gerhard Richter
Pollock looks unusual and radical even now. — Donald Judd
In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of. — Lee Krasner
Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock. — Eva Hesse
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
If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time. — 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? — Jackson Pollock
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
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
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
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
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
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
Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter. — Kenneth Noland
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: