Eras Quote by Irving Sandler

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…

— Ed Harris

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

— Roy Lichtenstein

To be an artist that is fully original, it doesn't exist.

— John Gourley

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

— Rob Long

“Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.”

— Yann Martel

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

— Walter Darby Bannard

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

— Kinky Friedman

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

— Lukas Foss

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

— Joseph Plaskett

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

— Malcolm Cowley

“We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great…

— Jessica Lave

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

— Ed Harris