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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
And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
— Donald Judd
How do you fill the space between, "God says it," and, "I believe it,"?
— Jen Pollock Michel
Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
— Agnes Martin
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
God, by his own efforts and unflagging energy, recalibrates our heart's desire for his kingdom.
— Jen Pollock Michel
Every act of seizure is an act of grace.
— Jen Pollock Michel
The modern artist ... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
— 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
Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin.
— Jen Pollock Michel
God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.
— Jen Pollock Michel
There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.
— Sharon Pollock
The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
— Jackson Pollock
When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.
— Donald Ray Pollock
I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
— Frederick 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
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
I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and de Kooning, one of the big boys.
— Stella Vine
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
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
— Channing Pollock
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
— Channing Pollock
We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God.
— Jen Pollock Michel
Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"
— Rob Long
Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.
— Jen Pollock Michel
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 colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit.
— John Charles Pollock
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
— Jackson Pollock
A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run
— Channing Pollock
It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
— Jackson Pollock
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
A monochrome Jackson Pollock," Jane says, and then tells Tiny, "We gotta bolt. This band is like a root canal sans painkiller".
— John Green
Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.
— Frederick Pollock
It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original
for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did ... — Irving Sandler
for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did ... — Irving Sandler
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
Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.
— Charles Pollock
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
— Malcolm Cowley
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
His (Paul's) entire personality within mutation. He was being turned inside out as he led Jesus light the recesses of his soul.
— John Charles 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
A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.
— Donald Ray Pollock
Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
— Frederick Pollock
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
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
— Jackson Pollock
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
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
A man's life is his work; his work is his life.
— Jackson Pollock
The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
— Frederick Pollock
Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.
— Jen Pollock Michel
Because this is Beth's fight, and that's what fathers do for their little girls,' he said.
— Tom Pollock
Some people were born just so they could be buried.
— 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
I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.
— Donald Ray Pollock
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
— Jackson Pollock
A canvas is an arena in which to act.
— Jackson Pollock
Seldom was blue for blue's sake present till Pollock hurled pigment at his canvas like pies.
— William H Gass
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
I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work
— Jackson Pollock
Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender.
— Jen Pollock Michel
New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man.
— John 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 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
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
I like you as much as I like much prettier sane girl.
— Tom Pollock
In asking for God's provision, we're admitting our inability to self-sustain.
— Jen Pollock Michel
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein ... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
— Frederick Pollock
Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.
— Kenneth Noland
Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.
— Channing Pollock
If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
— Damien Hirst
Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.
— Jen Pollock Michel
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
— Jackson 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
My painting does not come from the easel.
— Jackson Pollock
Turning consciously from evil to faith did not always bring immediate awareness of how to please God
— John Charles Pollock
Strangers complained about the stench, but the locals liked to brag that it was the sweet smell of money.
— Donald Ray Pollock
Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.
— Yann Martel
we're using our freedoms to break the bonds of community, which have long held us together.
— 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
providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each
— John Charles Pollock
It's hard to live a good life ... It seems like the Devil don't ever let up.
— Donald Ray Pollock
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
— Jackson Pollock
Because of who we were, I already knew what we would do.
— Donald Ray Pollock
The painting has a life of its own
— Jackson Pollock
A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
— Jackson Pollock
Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.
— Jen Pollock Michel
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
— Jackson Pollock
You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.
— Jackson Pollock
People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
— Jackson Pollock
The most genuine acts of kindness are done without fanfare and when no one is looking.
— Jason Pollock
Pollock also ... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
— Jackson Pollock
..and only by assimilating into their community would they succeed.
— Lindsay Pollock
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
— Jackson Pollock
Faith in Christ leaped from person to person like some divine epidemic, not of disease but of spiritual health.
— 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
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
— Frederick Pollock
I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.
— Jackson Pollock