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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 as for being a great artist.

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.

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

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.

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

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

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

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.