…manufacture, which occupied me for several very dangerous years, but I was lucky to survive. And I think after rockets came Jackson Pollock, and it was just one thing after another. And when I look leading ultimately to, for me, psychedelics, which were…

…has been very chaotic. We are asked to make sense of a great deal, you know, from Marcel Proust to the Third Reich to Jackson Pollock to the moon flights, all of this stuff. And in a sense, we must make the effort to cognize what is happening because…

…this small, narrow minded town where I lived. It was a good way to get in everybody's Face was to go around saying you know Jackson Pollock is a genius. You may not think so but you're an idiot. And you know, there was a period in my life where I…

…an ecology that valued Norman Rockwell, rock of ages, silent night, Rosemary Clooney and you know and I said no no Jackson Pollock, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Carl Yaspers, Martin Heidegger I didn't know what these things meant I just knew they were…

…dadaists and the surrealists are saying: we have to break up the linear expectations of the bourgeois mind and then you get Jackson Pollock and those people who say the image itself has to be thrown out. And then, to my mind, the psychedelic thing in…

…look over the 20th century, James Joyce, for what he did for language, the permission he gave to make language a living object. Jackson Pollock is a great personal hero of mine. Here was a boy from Cody Wyoming who managed to cut his way to the heart…

…species, cultures act to preserve the illusions of the population. They're not interested in you if you're an Einstein or a Jackson Pollock unless they can fit you in to the pre established systems of commerce and canons of aesthetic order and so forth…

…Tantric painting, it wasn't like amazonian bark cloth painting, it wasn't like Jan Van Eyck it wasn't like Hieronymus Bosch or Jackson Pollock or anybody else and I thought how extraordinary if you take the jungian view that the function of artists is to…

…about myself as a 13 year old kid and who were my heroes? It wasn't baseball players and it wasn't even astronauts it was Jackson Pollock. And that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a kid from Wyoming who went to New York and drank hard in…

…In other words, glorification of the American working class in a style almost reminiscent of the Mexican Mural style of Diego Rivera. Pollock came out of that. He used a screwdriver, was his major instrument and he stood back or stood over his canvases on…