Expressionism Quotes

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

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.

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!