Bleckner Quotes

#1. Until my early teens, I lived with my mother in New York, and I spent a lot of time in the company of her friends, mostly artists and designers, such as Andy Warhol, Ross Bleckner and Francesco Clemente, none of whom had kids, so I was like their shared child.

Jade Jagger

#2. The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

Ross Bleckner

#3. I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

Ross Bleckner

#4. I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.

Ross Bleckner

#5. One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.

Ross Bleckner

#6. Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

Edwin Louis Cole

#7. It almost seems that if you can describe it, you can change it.

Ross Bleckner

#8. My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

Gerald Durrell

#9. Life is short. Life goes fast. And what I really want to do in my life is to bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world. I try to think of that every day so that I can remember why I am coming to my studio.

Ross Bleckner

#10. A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

Ross Bleckner

#11. Bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world.

Ross Bleckner

#12. If you follow the process of a thought - any thought, not just about art - the thought changes. It has to do with what you can hold in your memory and what you lose. That's an interesting thing to try to paint.

Ross Bleckner

#13. But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken.

A.G. Howard

#14. The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Jules Shear

#15. A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

Ross Bleckner

#16. Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John D. Rockefeller