Pollock (film) Quotes

Pollock (film) is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Pollock ended in 1970.

It features Peter M. Brant as producer, Jeff Beal in charge of musical score, and Lisa Rinzler as head of cinematography.

Pollock (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Pollock (film) is 122 minutes long. Pollock (film) is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.

The cast includes: Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock, Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner, Amy Madigan as Peggy Guggenheim, John Heard as Tony Smith, Jeffrey Tambor as Clem Greenberg, Jennifer Connelly as Ruth Kligman, and Ed Harris as Sande Pollock.

Pollock (film) Quotes

Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner

• (Marcia Gay Harden) "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?"

• (Marcia Gay Harden) "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."
• (Ed Harris) "I am nature."

• (Marcia Gay Harden) "You've done it, Pollock. You've cracked it wide open."

Amy Madigan as Peggy Guggenheim

• (Amy Madigan) "I think you don't realize how hard I worked to get people interested in your work."

• (Amy Madigan) "I have just climbed up and down five flights of stairs. I'm Peggy Guggenheim --"
• (Marcia Gay Harden) "We're sorry."
• (Amy Madigan) "My God and you're drunk."
• (Ed Harris) "No."
• (Marcia Gay Harden) "No."

Ed Harris as Sande Pollock

• (News Broadcaster) "Mr. Pollock, in your opinion, what is the meaning of modern art?"
• (Ed Harris) "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?"
• (Ed Harris) "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."

• (Ed Harris) "f*** Picasso."

• (Unnamed) "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?"
• (Ed Harris) "You forgot baked macaroni."

• (Unnamed) "How do you know when you're finished with a painting?"
• (Ed Harris) "How do you know when you're finished making love?"

• (Ed Harris) "Who's the greatest drummer in the world?"
• (Ed Harris) "What?"
• (Ed Harris) "Crupa."

• (Ed Harris) "There is a smile of smiles in which these two smiles meet."

• (Ed Harris) "I'm dead without her."
• (Jennifer Connelly) "But I'm the one who loves you, Jackson."

John Heard as Tony Smith

• (John Heard) "What do you think of Picasso?"
• (Ed Harris) "Yeah, he has been."
• (John Heard) "DeKooning?"
• (Ed Harris) "He's alright, he's learning."

Jeffrey Tambor as Clem Greenberg

• (Jeffrey Tambor) "What you're doing is the most original and vigorous art in the country."
• (Ed Harris) "We're broke."
• (Jeffrey Tambor) "Yeah, keep at it."
• (Ed Harris) "Keeping at it -- don't tell me to keep at it."

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