Pollock, Jackson Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Who Gets to Call It Art?

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Fifties

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Way to Succeed

  1993, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Jackson Pollock

  1987, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Jackson Pollock:

"The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."

"The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."

"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."

"I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge."

"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was."

"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."

"Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within."

"It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed – after a while you may like it or you may not."

"The modern artist…is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces."

"When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well."

"I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting."

"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."

"I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc."

"On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting."

"New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture."

"It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well."

"I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting."

"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."

"When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen."

"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."