Art Quote by Yann Martel

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

— Irving Sandler

I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be…

— Anne Waldman

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

— Rob Long

“Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.”

— Elizabeth Isaacs

Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed…

— Agnes Martin

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

— Anonymous

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

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.…

— Tom Robbins

“I congratulate you people on being in the raging mainstream of the arts. It is commercial artists like myself who operate in the backwaters.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Art is sacred. Punk rock is freedom. Expression and right to express is vital. Anyone can be artistic.”

— Kurt Cobain

I quite like Jackson Pollock, and have a real gut reaction to it, so it does whatever it does to me.

— Denis Lawson

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good”

— Oscar Wilde