Dana Schutz Quotes

#1. And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

Stephen King

#2. I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just ... lame.

Dana Schutz

#3. Do what you know needs to be done.

Lynda A. Calder

#4. The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.

James Lipton

#5. I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.

Dana Schutz

#6. Galen's Prophecy,

Susan Cain

#7. Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed

Steve Jobs

#8. We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp.

Guy Steele

#9. Analog sounds so much better. I frankly can't listen to digital audio for more than a few hours without really starting to hate what I'm listening to. Even decent 24-bit digital resolution really irritates me after a while.

Tom Scholz

#10. For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

Henri Nouwen

#11. Young people are not only rebels. They have a special heart.

Gloria Trevi

#12. That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

Dana Schutz

#13. May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.

William Wilberforce

#14. I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed - the whole thing supposedly takes place in her bedroom at her parents house in Duluth, MN. I thought it was great and really strange - to have a comedy special without having to leave your bed.

Dana Schutz

#15. I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.

Dana Schutz

#16. I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.

Dana Schutz

#17. I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.

Dana Schutz

#18. The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

Dana Schutz

#19. It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Criss Jami

#20. There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.

Dana Schutz

#21. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#22. He'd fantasized about her too? "You don't have to fantasize anymore," she murmured...

Katie Reus

#23. There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.

Roland Barthes

#24. It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi

Vincent Van Gogh