Jozy Pollock Quotes

As a soccer player, the goal isn't to be very bulky. It is more important to even your body out. Make sure your body is well rounded. You can't really focus on one area. Everything has to be balanced. ~ Jozy Altidore

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

Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin. ~ Jen Pollock Michel

After history, which I occasionally enjoy, and French, which I tres don't, I have double art. The art studio hasn't been changed in, like, a hundred years. The floors are battered and creaky and covered with so many layers of dried paint that if looks like Jackson Pollock Was Here, minus the cigarette butts.
Apparently, past generations of Willing Art Girls had tossed their cigarettes onto the tiled window well outside rather than onto the floor. "They were more ladylike," Cat Vernon told me once, pointing out the window beside her easle. The butts are gone, but there are burn marks, scattered like leopard spots,over the terra-cotta surface. ~ Melissa Jensen

Down we felt as up we grew, dancing our didn'ts and drinking our dids. ~ Rachel E. Pollock

In the morning, I work on my core stability and do some work with the exercise bands. Sometimes I do some upper body and a little bit of leg weights to get warm and ready for training. And then I'm out on the pitch. ~ Jozy Altidore

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own. ~ Jackson Pollock

Medieval justice was a quaint thing. ~ Frederick Pollock

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

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

Every act of seizure is an act of grace. ~ Jen Pollock Michel

I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving. ~ Owen Wilson

The morality taught by Paul and demonstrated by his converts was in stark contrast to the old, permissive morality of the ancient world. It was unconventional: It showed a love of man irrespective of his race, showed forgiveness instead of resentment for wrong, joy instead of grim endurance of adversity or oppression. ~ John Charles Pollock

I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them. ~ Jackson Pollock

I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

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

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell. ~ Jackson Pollock

You would have loved Jackson. He was a downtown guy, a real Bohemian. No banker's hours for him, believe you me. Every night the drinking and the talking and the fighting and the dancing and the staying up late; like everyone's romantic idea of what an artist ought to be: the anti-Rothko... At his worst you still loved him though; you loved him because he loved art so much... He thought it mattered. He thought painting mattered... Does not the poignancy stop your heart?... How could this story not end in tragedy?

Goya said, 'We have Art that we may not perish from Truth.'... Pollock saw some truth. Then he didn't have art to protect him any more... Who could survive that?

I was walking up to my house last week and this couple was passing. Lady looks in the window, says: 'I wonder who owns all the Rothkos.'... Just like that I'm a noun. A Rothko. ~ John Logan

How do you fill the space between, "God says it," and, "I believe it,"? ~ Jen Pollock Michel

Sometimes something as simple as going for a 20-minute jog on any given day is important. Keeps your body moving and legs from getting stiffened up from doing high-intensity workouts during the week. ~ Jozy Altidore

That afternoon, with a sense of infinite relief, Pollock watched the flat swampy foreshore of Sulyma grow small in the distance. The gap in the long line of white surge became narrower and narrower. It seemed to be closing in and cutting him off from his trouble. The feeling of dread and worry began to slip from him bit by bit. At Sulyma belief in Porroh malignity and Porroh magic had been in the air, his sense of Porroh had been vast, pervading, threatening, dreadful. Now manifestly the domain of Porroh was only a little place, a little black band between the lea and the blue cloudy Mendi uplands.
("Pollock And The Porroh Man") ~ H.G.Wells

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run ~ Channing Pollock

Contemplating the adolescence through which we scorned the wrong, some of us must wish … that we could be born old, and grow younger and cleaner and ever simpler and more innocent, until at last, with the white souls of little children, we lay us down to eternal sleep. ~ Channing Pollock

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win. ~ Sharon Pollock

Pollock also ... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting. ~ Robert Rauschenberg

I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it. ~ Charles Pollock

The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain. ~ Billy Cannon

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout. ~ Jackson Pollock

Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk. ~ Charles Pollock

They's a lot of no-good sonofabitches out there."
Arvin asks, "More than a hundred?"
Willard laughed a little and put the truck in gear. "Yeah, at least that many. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

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

A damp, gray sky covered southern Ohio like the skin of a corpse. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. ~ Jackson Pollock