Jackson Pollock

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

Modern art, to me, is nothing more than the expression of the contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

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.

— If you could be anybody who ever lived in the history of the whole world, who would you be?
— You.