Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.
“In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.”
“So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.”