It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.
I don't need to own one but I like to look at Diane Arbus's pictures and anything by Jackson Pollock.
Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"
I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.
I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.
I quite like Jackson Pollock, and have a real gut reaction to it, so it does whatever it does to me.
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.
In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.
I'm inspired by Jackson Pollock; splashing layer upon layer, using different materials, experimenting with new methods to produce something fresh. I'd love to be able to create in this way!
Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive."
Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.