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Jackson Pollock: Fuck Picasso.

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Lee Krasner: Jackson Pollock, I'm Lee Krasner. I thought I knew all the outstanding artists in New York and I don't know Jackson Pollock.

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Tony Smith: About if an artist is good - What do you think of Picasso?
Jackson Pollock: Yeah, he has been.
Tony Smith: DeKooning?
Jackson Pollock: He's alright, he's learning.

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Peggy Guggenheim: I have just climbed up and down five flights of stairs. I'm Peggy Guggenheim...
Lee Krasner: We're sorry.
Peggy Guggenheim: to Jackson Pollock - My God and you're drunk.
Jackson Pollock: No.
Lee Krasner: No.

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Clem Greenberg: What you're doing is the most original and vigorous art in the country.
Jackson Pollock: We're broke!
Clem Greenberg: Yeah, keep at it.
Jackson Pollock: Keeping at it... don't tell me to keep at it!

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Lee Krasner: You've done it, Pollock. You've cracked it wide open. - seeing the first painting of his breakthrough

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Peggy Guggenheim: I think you don't' realise how hard I worked to get people interested in your work. - before she and Pollock want to make love

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Jackson Pollock: I'm dead without her. - referring to Lee
Ruth Kligman: But I'm the one who loves you, Jackson.

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Jackson Pollock: About his critics - If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

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interviewer: 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?
Jackson Pollock: You forgot baked macaroni.

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interviewer: How do you know when you're finished with a painting?
Jackson Pollock: How do you know when you're finished making love?

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