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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.