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

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 him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

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

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.

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

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

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

In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.

Every good painter paints what he is.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.