News Broadcaster Quotes in Pollock (2000)

News Broadcaster: Mr. Pollock, in your opinion, what is the meaning of modern art?

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

News Broadcaster: Do the classical artists have any means of expressing their age?

Jackson Pollock: Yes, and they did it very well. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims. The thing that interests me is that today, painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. They work from a different source, they work from within. It seems to me that the artist cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or any other past culture.

News Broadcaster: We interrupt to bring you a special newscast of a sensational suicide try on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Mrs. Crampton: Oh, isn't it sad how many nuts are running around loose today?

E. J. Crampton: It certainly is, sweetheart.

News Broadcaster: Our special UBC helicopter enables us to bring you an exclusive close-up view of the pair attempting suicide. These pictures, live from the scene.

E. J. Crampton: There you are. Another first for UBC.

[a closeup from the news helicopter reveals the stranded Wilbanks and Mertons]

E. J. Crampton: [Stands up] Oh, no!