de Kooning on the Emotion of Forms

Although he had a very radical gestural style, Abstract Expressionist artist Willem de Kooning never fully abandoned representational imagery, he was similar to Pollack in that his forms usually emerged from his painting style, not necessarily from his conscious mind.

"Forms ought to have the emotion of concrete experience."

(-Willem de Kooning p. 151 Modern American Painting)

The preceding quote from de Kooning especially illustrates just that point. While Jackson Pollack created compositions with no beginning, no end, and tried to draw out the unconcious, de Kooning had a much more visceral approach to painting.