Jackson Pollock Quote

On his painting 'She wolf':

It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it.


In 1947. As quoted in Abstract Expressionism, David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 87


It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could ...

It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could ...

It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could ...

It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could ...