“Pollock” quotes

“If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“- Interviewer: How do you know when you're finished with a painting?
- Jackson Pollock: How do you know when you're finished making love?”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“- Jackson Pollock: I'm dead without her.
- Ruth Kligman: But I'm the one who loves you, Jackson.”

Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Ruth Kligman

“- Lee Krasner: You're not just randomly putting paint on the canvas, you're painting something. You can't abstract from nothing, you can only abstract from life, from nature.
- Jackson Pollock: I am nature.”
Marcia Gay Harden - Lee Krasner
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims. The thing that interests me is that today, painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. They work from a different source, they work from within. It seems to me that the artist cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“Fuck Picasso.”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“Modern art, to me, is nothing more than the expression of the contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“- Interviewer: How do you respond to some of your critics? They have said a mop of tangled hair, a child's contour map of the battle of Gettysburg, cathartic disintegration, degenerate. What do you say to that?
- Jackson Pollock: You forgot baked macaroni.”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock