A Quote by Damien Hirst

If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.

Damien Hirst

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Damien Hirst
British - Artist
Born: June 7, 1965

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

Ed Harris

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

Patti Smith

Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera.

Edward Ruscha

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.

Henry Flynt

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

Robert Rauschenberg

If you see 'Pollock,' I weighed almost 270 pounds.

Jeffrey Tambor

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.

Donald Judd

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Lee Krasner

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

Kenneth Noland

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

Roy Lichtenstein

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

Pat Steir

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Malcolm Cowley

It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.

Irving Sandler

I don't need to own one but I like to look at Diane Arbus's pictures and anything by Jackson Pollock.

Lynne Ramsay

Retirement shouldn't be making the choice between buying much-needed medication or putting food on the table; making the choice between heating an apartment in the cold winter months or paying rent; making the choice between paying a phone bill or seeing a doctor.