Pollock Quotes

To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul. ~ Charles Pollock

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us. ~ Jen Pollock Michel

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall. ~ Jackson Pollock

My painting does not come from the easel. ~ Jackson Pollock

All children, including TCKs, face a myriad of developmental tasks as they grow from helpless infants into healthy adults. Among them is the need to develop a strong sense of personal identity as well as group identity, answering the questions Who am I? and Where do I belong? Traditionally, the family and community mirror back the answers and the child sees his or her image reflected in them. ~ David C. Pollock

If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time. ~ Damien Hirst

Science cannot explain miracles. Neither do miracles explain science. ~ Jerry Pollock

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art. ~ Frederick Pollock

God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish. ~ Jen Pollock Michel

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

I'd rather sit next to Brian for two hours in a dark theater than have a wall painting party with Jackson Pollock ~ Jandy Nelson

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

Anthropologist Gary Weaver suggested looking at culture as a kind of iceberg: one portion is clearly visible above the surface of the water, while the much larger chunk of ice is hidden below. The part above the water can be considered surface culture––what we can physically see or hear, including behavior, words, customs, language, and traditions. Underneath the water, invisible to all, is the deep culture. This place includes our beliefs, values, assumptions, worldview, and thought processes. ~ David C. Pollock

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

His joy was a release of Paul's conversion, not the heavy backslapping practical-joking humor of the Victorians, nor the cynical satire or the flippancy of the twenty first century mass media, just the gift of not taking himself or his adversaries too seriously. ~ John 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

A canvas is an arena in which to act. ~ Jackson Pollock

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint. ~ Bill Viola

A colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit. ~ John Charles Pollock

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

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

Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive." ~ Tom Robbins

Gratitude is a powerful lens which, if we gaze through thoughtfully, we can come to a place where we are better able to understand ourselves. ~ Jacq Pollock

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

The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. ~ Michael Heizer

Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire. ~ Jen Pollock Michel

Nobody really turns out too happy in any of my stuff. It's really strange, because I'm actually a pretty happy person. I'm not walking around giggling or anything like that, but I've got this feeling that everything is okay with my life. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

Turning consciously from evil to faith did not always bring immediate awareness of how to please God ~ John Charles Pollock

If the story wasn't overly long, I'd type it out. And I'd carry it around with me for a week and jot notes on it, and then I'd throw it away and do another one. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary. ~ Jen Pollock Michel

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! ~ LeRoy Neiman

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

Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock. ~ Eva Hesse

The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and good times, interest in your studies, interest in your fellow students, interest in the small things of nature, insects, birds, flowers, leaves, etc. In other words to be fully awake to everything about you & the more you learn the more you can appreciate & get a full measure of joy & happiness out of life. ~ LeRoy Pollock

Because of who we were, I already knew what we would do. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that. ~ Jackson Pollock

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. ~ Jackson Pollock

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now. ~ Donald Judd

But people like the doll guy who sells women and the dog guy who buys women, and other guys who, say, rape women, or maybe don't go as far as violent rape but treat women like objects instead of people - sure, there's a difference in the level of crime, but it's all the same thing, where women become a canvas for throwing emotional baggage, Jackson Pollock style. ~ Taylor Stevens

Many of the most accomplished people of our era were considered by experts to have no future. Jackson Pollock, Marcel Proust, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Lucille Ball, and Charles Darwin were all thought to have little potential for their chosen fields. ~ Carol S. Dweck

It was in a swampy village on the lagoon river behind the Turner Peninsula that Pollock's first encounter with the Porroh man occurred. The women of that country are famous for their good looks - they are Gallinas with a dash of European blood that dates from the days of Vasco da Gama and the English slave-traders, and the Porroh man, too, was possibly inspired by a faint Caucasian taint in his composition. (It's a curious thing to think that some of us may have distant cousins eating men on Sherboro Island or raiding with the Sofas.) At any rate, the Porroh man stabbed the woman to the heart as though he had been a mere low-class Italian, and very narrowly missed Pollock. But Pollock, using his revolver to parry the lightning stab which was aimed at his deltoid muscle, sent the iron dagger flying, and, firing, hit the man in the hand.

He fired again and missed, knocking a sudden window out of the wall of the hut. The Porroh man stooped in the doorway, glancing under his arm at Pollock. Pollock caught a glimpse of his inverted face in the sunlight, and then the Englishman was alone, sick and trembling with the excitement of the affair, in the twilight of the place. It had all happened in less time than it takes to read about it.

("Pollock And The Porroh Man") ~ H.G. Wells

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

Movies I remember in impressions. No matter how many times I see a film, my memory of it is like a Monet painting...or a Cezanne, depending on the genre. Sometimes all I can muster is a Jackson Pollock. My memory of experience is usually the same: I carry with me only the sensations it gave me, the general outline of its content, the essential colors that strained my sensibility in the moments I took it in. I don't remember dialogue or specific action. Only shapes and impressions. ~ Kim Cope Tait

The author says our prayers are misdirected when we ask God that He help us to love Him more. If we pray to him more, we will love Him more. ~ Jen Pollock Michel

A romance is never just a romance, there's adventure, mystery and movement.

You need a grand, dramatic setting - the Swiss Alps were always an personal favourite of mine - and a chance meeting, on a train, a cruise, or perhaps the hero and heroine find themselves shipwrecked on a desert island.

The men are normally rich, well-to-do - but never vulgar with their money. Young men lack the maturity to take control so an older man is essential to provide the reassurance the heroine's needs.

There's always a fair amount of turbulence before he sweeps in to save the day. A happy ending is an absolute must. ~ Ida Pollock

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

A biographer has to decide between slowing to a halt in a bog of conflicting possibilities or striding boldly across by a causeway of conjecture. I choose the second course and, without stepping aside to discuss all the alternatives, tell the story as I see it. Paul's next eighteen months unfolded somewhat as follows, though the tone of assurance in my narrative must not disguise that some of its conclusions are tentative and disputable. The ~ John Charles Pollock

Life is a perception of the mind; all the answers are within us ~ Stacey T. Pollock

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

Art is coming face to face with yourself. ~ Jackson Pollock

In Paul's view a church should not merely survive in its unfriendly pagan environment, but advance. Christians should have nothing to do with a sad acceptance of harsh surroundings, bearing heavy crosses with uncomplaining gloom, cultivating an oppressive sense of sin. They were to be positive, doing good to one another and to unbelieving Jews and pagans regardless of abuse or injury. "Rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks." No matter how adverse the circumstances, their way of life should be a rebuke to foulness and a spur to their neighbors to seek for themselves this new, extraordinary existence; Christians must outlove, outjoy, outthink, and always welcome those who opposed them. ~ John Charles Pollock

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

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

You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. ~ Jackson 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

I took a correspondence course with a guy at Ohio University. He gave me ten exercises, and one of them resulted in the story "Bactine." It pleased me a lot more than anything else I'd ever done, so I kept messing around and by the time I got to Ohio State I'd written maybe eight stories. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

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

We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing. ~ Jen Pollock Michel

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. ~ Frederick Pollock

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. ~ Jackson Pollock

I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and I know if I tried to write those books the way I wrote the stories it would take me years to finish. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

It's hard to live a good life ... It seems like the Devil don't ever let up. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally. ~ Jen Pollock Michel

Painting is a state of being. ~ Jackson Pollock

Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings. ~ Jen Pollock Michel

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

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

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

TCK builds relationships to all of the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although elements from each culture are assimilated into the TCK's life experience, the sense of belonging is in relationship to others of similar background. ~ David C. Pollock

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

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

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

When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different magazines. A lot of them said they got so many submissions that unless the first page stuck out or the first paragraph or even the first sentence they'll probably send it back. So part of my idea was that if I have a really good first sentence maybe they'll read on a bit further. At least half, maybe more of the stories in Knockemstiff started with the first sentence; I got it down then went from there. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

The Bible provocatively evokes desire. ~ Jen Pollock Michel

New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man. ~ John Charles Pollock

Profs who go to Knossos to look for books on Phobos or Kronos go on to jot down monophthongs (kof or rho) from two monoglot scrolls on Thoth, old god of Copts - both scrolls torn from hornbooks, now grown brown from mold. Profs who gloss works of Woolf, Gogol, Frost or Corot look for books from Knopf: Oroonoko or Nostromo - not Hopscotch (nor Tlooth). Profs who do schoolwork on Pollock look for photobooks on Orozco or Rothko (two tomfools who throw bold colors, blotch on blotch, onto tondos of dropcloth). ~ Christian Bök

After I won the Oscar for 'Pollock,' some newspaper printed, 'She should get a million-dollar bump.' My sisters would write me, 'You're gonna get this million-dollar bump!' ~ Marcia Gay Harden

I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

Medieval justice was a quaint thing. ~ Frederick Pollock

Doesn't move his feet? Who cares? Neither did Graeme Pollock. ~ James Mettyear

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

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

The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result. ~ Jackson Pollock

When we think of the word culture, obvious representations such as how to dress, eat, speak, and act like those around us come to mind. But learning culture is more than learning conformity to external patterns of behavior. Culture is also a system of shared concepts, beliefs, and values. It is the framework from which we interpret and make sense of life and the world around us. ~ David C. Pollock

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

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative. ~ Frederick Pollock

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much. ~ Channing Pollock

Faith in Christ leaped from person to person like some divine epidemic, not of disease but of spiritual health. ~ John Charles Pollock

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

I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper and found a story that happened around here yesterday or the day before that's just as shocking as anything in my book. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

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

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

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. ~ Yann Martel

When you first heard him talking about it, you'd figure he was batshit crazy, but really, he was just trying to fill up his days so he didn't have to think about what a fucking mess he had made of everything. It's the same for most of us; forgetting our lives might be the best we'll ever do. ~ Donald Ray Pollock

The modern artist ... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. ~ Jackson Pollock

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

providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each ~ John Charles Pollock

we're using our freedoms to break the bonds of community, which have long held us together. ~ Jen Pollock Michel