quotes on jackson pollock

“it was the business of putting paint on canvas that alone counted for the Action Painters and led them to abstraction. They did not represent their emotions or sensations but enacted them before the canvas...he (POLLOCK) was not a naturally gifted painter and wrestled in rage and fury at his inability to master traditional techniques. Suddenly it seems to have come to him, as if in revelation, that he could find fulfilment by exteriorising this struggle, by making the act of painting its own subject.” ...