Top 100 Quotes About Pollock
#1. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
#2. The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.
Jen Pollock Michel
#3. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
Jackson Pollock
#5. I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.
Donald Ray Pollock
#7. Dali's Reclining Woman Wearing a Chemise looks like a dead slaughtered doll, and I can see preying eagles, broken arrows, and jazz musicians in Jackson Pollock, and because I believe that Man Ray and Duchamp were lovers.
Dionne Brand
#8. Strangers complained about the stench, but the locals liked to brag that it was the sweet smell of money.
Donald Ray Pollock
#10. Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.
Donald Ray Pollock
#11. But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
Frederick Pollock
#12. providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each
John Charles Pollock
#13. Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.
John Ashbery
#14. Kyle, you are a mellow dude ... You can't be with an agitator. And that's what she is. An agitator. She's a Jackson Pollock and you're a Thomas Kinkade.
Genevieve Dewey
#15. The secret of success is ... to be fully awake to everything about you.
Jackson Pollock
#16. I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.
Donald Ray Pollock
#17. I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.
Donald Ray Pollock
#19. If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.
Jackson Pollock
#20. You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.
Jackson Pollock
#21. Turning consciously from evil to faith did not always bring immediate awareness of how to please God
John Charles Pollock
#22. I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn't working for me at all.
Donald Ray Pollock
#23. He imagined the door to a sad, empty room closing with a faint click, never to be opened again, and that calmed him a little.
Donald Ray Pollock
#24. According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.
Jen Pollock Michel
#25. Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin.
Jen Pollock Michel
#27. How do you fill the space between, "God says it," and, "I believe it,"?
Jen Pollock Michel
#28. The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.
Jen Pollock Michel
#29. I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct - the greater the possibilities of making a direct - of making a statement.
Jackson Pollock
#30. At length he told the Lord he would leave it in His hands. Peace flowed back. No voice or light disclosed the next move,
John Charles Pollock
#32. My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
Jackson Pollock
#33. I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
Donald Ray Pollock
#34. Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
Frederick Pollock
#36. It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original
for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did ...
Irving Sandler
#37. Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a car.
Donald Ray Pollock
#38. I can do all things in Him who strengthens me" (or, "I am ready for anything through the strength of the One who lives within me").
John Charles Pollock
#39. Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.
Jen Pollock Michel
#41. Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.
Yann Martel
#42. Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
Frederick Pollock
#43. I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
Jackson Pollock
#44. Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here - is - away from the easel - into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting ...
Jackson Pollock
#45. Jimmy's eyes would turn as red and sticky as candy, and his head would fall back against the seat in a dream. If he were lucky tonight, maybe he would see something that he hadn't seen before. And then it would be my turn.
Donald Ray Pollock
#47. Like what Jackson Pollock used to say. He thought the creation of the painting was the art, and the painting was just what was left. He didn't know why people wanted to buy his paintings.
Andy Reynolds
#48. It's hard to live a good life ... It seems like the Devil don't ever let up.
Donald Ray Pollock
#49. I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.
Taylor Swift
#50. Faith in Christ leaped from person to person like some divine epidemic, not of disease but of spiritual health.
John Charles Pollock
#51. Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"
Rob Long
#52. In asking for God's provision, we're admitting our inability to self-sustain.
Jen Pollock Michel
#53. I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.
Donald Ray Pollock
#54. No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
Channing Pollock
#55. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.
Jackson Pollock
#56. Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.
Eva Hesse
#57. I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual - when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson Pollock of the commentary box.
Sid Waddell
#58. The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock
#59. Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
Jackson Pollock
#61. The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
Jackson Pollock
#64. The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
Jackson Pollock
#65. You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it.
Donald Ray Pollock
#66. It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
Jackson Pollock
#67. After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, "I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything.
Jen Pollock Michel
#68. People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
Jackson Pollock
#70. J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.
Donald Ray Pollock
#71. I remember a class I taught at Ohio State where I assigned a Mary Gaitskill story, which really wasn't that bad, and I had this one girl refuse to read it. But better that reaction than no reaction at all.
Donald Ray Pollock
#72. Don't get me wrong: I think that everyone should put forth an effort to do better, but let's face it, some of us are just plain luckier than others.
Donald Ray Pollock
#73. Do we want a master, or shall we have a genie whose command is our wish? This is the tension of desire - and the test of revelation.
Jen Pollock Michel
#74. 'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters.
Donald Ray Pollock
#75. So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.
Frederick Pollock
#76. In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
Ed Harris
#77. I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.
Donald Ray Pollock
#78. When I was growing up, I just wanted to be somewhere else. I didn't like living in Knockemstiff, and I figured when I got older, I'd move off to some big city.
Donald Ray Pollock
#79. I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
Henry Flynt
#80. A colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit.
John Charles Pollock
#81. For a slave to be taught that he should no longer lie and cheat with revolutionary; more astonishing still was the slave's discovery that he did not want to lie or cheat and that he now loved the owner whom he had once resented and feared.
John Charles Pollock
#82. Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer - things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it's almost like a person. It's this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more.
Charles Pollock
#83. The modern artist ... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
Jackson Pollock
#85. I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black - with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing - and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.
Jackson Pollock
#86. Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.
Charles Pollock
#87. I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.
Donald Ray Pollock
#88. The glass door swung open and two big, homely women walked in looking guilty. They were the kind of women who, out of sheer loneliness, end up doing kinky stuff with candy bars and wake up with apple fritters in their hair.
Donald Ray Pollock
#89. When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock
#90. Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.
Frederick Pollock
#91. Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.
Donald Ray Pollock
#92. God, by his own efforts and unflagging energy, recalibrates our heart's desire for his kingdom.
Jen Pollock Michel
#93. He would have considered it ironic that, the more men discovered the insignificance of their planet, the more highly they would rate themselves, all the more sure that they could explain everything without reference to God. They
John Charles Pollock
#94. All prayers that beseech the mercy of God are finally and fully answered in that suffering Servant Whom God sent, Jesus Christ. We, even our desires, are saved because HE was bruised.
Jen Pollock Michel
#95. life is too short not living every second of it
Naomi Pollock
#96. I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
Frederick Pollock
#97. If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
Damien Hirst
#98. Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.
Jen Pollock Michel
#100. I wouldn't care whether it was a laboratory or a carnival. But it's merely safe. Tell me, Mr. Pollock, what is the matter with Gopher Prairie?
Sinclair Lewis
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