Jackson Pollock Berühmte Zitate
in Bernhard Kerber: Amerikanische Kunst seit 1945 - ihre theoretischen Grundlagen. Reclam Stuttgart 1971. S. 88
Original englisch: "A while ago a critic wrote that my paintings have no beginning and no end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. It was a fine compliment." - Berton Roueché: Unframed Space. NEW YORKER 5. August 1950; zitiert nach Pepe Karmel, Kirk Vamedoe: Jackson Pollock - Interviews, Articles and Reviews. Museum of Modern Art New York 1999. p. 278
Zitate mit Quellengabe
in Jürgen Claus: Theorien zeitgenössischer Malerei in Selbstzeugnissen. Rowohlt 1963. S. 63, auch in Kammerlohr, "Epochen der Kunst", Band 5; Oldenbourg Verlag 1995
Original englisch: "When I am in my 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." - My Painting, in: Possibilities I, 1947-48, "Problems of Contemporary Art" v. 4, Georg Wittenborn Inc. New York. Zitiert in Ellen H. Johnson: American artists on art from 1940 to 1980, 1982. p. 4,
Zitate mit Quellengabe
Jackson Pollock: Zitate auf Englisch
Quelle: 1950's, Interview by William Wright, Summer 1950, p. 17
Quelle: 1950's, Interview by William Wright, Summer 1950, p. 144
“The important thing is that Clyff Still – you know his work?”
and Rothko, and I – we've changed the nature of painting.. .I don't mean there aren't any other good painters. Bill [ Willem the Kooning ] is a good painter, but he's a 'French' painter [Pollock meant: a French-abstract style]. I told him so, the last time I saw him after his last show,. ..all those pictures in his last show start with an image. You can see it even though he's covered it up, or tried to.. ..Style – that's the French part of it. He has to cover it up with style.. [answering Seldon Rodman's question]
In an interview (1956); published in Conversations with Artists, by Seldon Rodman, New York, Capricorn Books, 1961, pp. 84-85
1950's