Fritz Scholder Quotes

#1. My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

Emmitt Smith

#2. If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

Fritz Scholder

#3. I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.

Fritz Scholder

#4. You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself ... so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.

Fritz Scholder

#5. Remember that life is short and death is long.

Fritz Scholder

#6. The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

George Sand

#7. I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things.

Fritz Scholder

#8. Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag

#9. Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

Aldo Leopold

#10. The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins.

Fritz Scholder

#11. Here's the problem. Most people are thinking about what they don't want, and they're wondering why it shows up over and over again.

Rhonda Byrne

#12. The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.

Wendell Berry

#13. Let all the learned say what they can, 'tis ready money makes the man.

William Somervile

#14. In other words, the most ardent republicans since the fall of Rome were asking their king to help them prevail over the representative legislature of the world's oldest constitutional monarchy, the great symbol and protector of British freedom. From

Sarah Vowell

#15. In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

Wim Wenders

#16. We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

Fritz Scholder

#17. Oh. Allison swallowed. He was protecting her again. If he didn't watch it, she'd definitely start to think he had a soft spot hidden beneath those claws and fur.

Cynthia Eden