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Jackson Pollock: Fuck Picasso.
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Lee Krasner: Jackson Pollock, I'm Lee Krasner. I thought I knew all the outstanding artists in New York and I don't know Jackson Pollock.
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Tony Smith: What do you think of Picasso?
Jackson Pollock: Yeah, he has been.
Tony Smith: DeKooning?
Jackson Pollock: He's alright, he's learning.
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Peggy Guggenheim: I have just climbed up and down five flights of stairs. I'm Peggy Guggenheim...
Lee Krasner: We're sorry.
Peggy Guggenheim: [to Pollock] My God and you're drunk.
Jackson Pollock: No.
Lee Krasner: No.
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Clem Greenberg: What you're doing is the most original and vigorous art in the country.
Jackson Pollock: We're broke!
Clem Greenberg: Yeah, keep at it.
Jackson Pollock: Keeping at it... don't tell me to keep at it!
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Lee Krasner: [seeing his breakthrough painting] You've done it, Pollock. You've cracked it wide open.
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Peggy Guggenheim: [before love making] I think you don't realize how hard I worked to get people interested in your work.
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Jackson Pollock: [referring to Lee] I'm dead without her.
Ruth Kligman: But I'm the one who loves you, Jackson.
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Jackson Pollock: 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.
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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.
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interviewer: How do you know when you're finished with a painting?
Jackson Pollock: How do you know when you're finished making love?
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[first lines]
Jackson Pollock: [drunk] Who's the greatest drummer in the world?
Sande Pollock: What?
Jackson Pollock: Krupa
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Lee Krasner: [reciting] To whom shall I hire myself out? / What beast must I adore? / What holy image is attacked? / What hearts must I break? / What lie must I maintain? / And, what blood shed?
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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.
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Sande Pollock: [quoting from William Blake] There is a smile of smiles in which these two smiles meet.
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News Broadcaster: Mr. Pollock, in your opinion, what is the meaning of modern art?
Jackson Pollock: Modern art, to me, is nothing more than the expression of the contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.
News Broadcaster: Do the classical artists have any means of expressing their age?
Jackson Pollock: Yes, and they did it very well. 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, in the old forms of the Renaissance or any other past culture.
Pollock Quotes
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Kaelyn 2022-03-18 09:01:05
In the American East Village in the 1940s, painters talked about TS Eliot and Blake, and listened to Benny Goodman, eager to get rid of the influence of Picasso Miromatis. The impoverished Pollock pioneered the drip painting method, won praise but couldn't get rid of his inner self-closing and depression. I am used to seeing the image of Ed Harris as a soldier, and looking at the image of the artist a little bit offensive, but De Kooning's actor is more literary. Tom Witz’s music has once again added points.
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Chesley 2022-01-12 08:01:48
As far as the biography is concerned, it is a bit thin, and the portrayal of the characters' alcoholism and mental defects is too much, far more than his pursuit of fine art.
