Pollock Quotes

(On painter Jackson Pollock): "One thing I learned about Mr. Pollock`s art, which any art student knows I`m sure, but was indeed a revelation to me, is that Jackson fully believed and lived by `don`t use the accident, because I deny the accident`. One cannot even approximate Pollock`s work unless every stroke, every pour, every slap, every fling, every shake, every splash, every splatter and every flick has a specific intention".

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

(Talking about Lee Krasner, her character in Pollock (2000)): "When she was first married, Lee`s main concern was pleasing Jackson, she was the kind of woman who hung her hat on another man`s peg to find herself, in spite of how brilliant she was in her own right. Their marriage was wonderful, fabulous, and hideous. They fed off each other in ways that weren`t always healthy, but, if they hadn`t been together, Pollock never would have become world famous and Lee wouldn`t have pushed herself to the artistic limits she did. As soon as they split, one of them was bound to destruct".

(31st over: World XI 110-7 (Flintoff 14, Pollock 3) - 146 to win) Just the one Pollock run from that over.) I too can sympathise with Matthew Cobb - something similar happened to me when playing cricket as a teenager, ... A gust of wind trapped the wasp under a lock of my slightly foppish hair which sent it into the normal wasp rage. I`ve had a short back and sides ever since...

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

On February 22, 1855, Pennsylvania Governor William Pollock signed the charter that created what is today The Pennsylvania State University.