Ross 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. There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

Sloane Crosley

#3. Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Robert Benchley

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

Ross Bleckner

#5. I should have been sending up flares, instead I was offering smiles.

Lisa Unger

#6. 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

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

Ross Bleckner

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

Ross Bleckner

#9. Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.

John Muir

#10. 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

#11. I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.

Rachel Tucker

#12. Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.

Marilyn Monroe

#13. That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Stephen Levine

#14. Want is such a short word, and yet it can encompass so many infinite things.

Katy Evans

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

Ross Bleckner

#16. Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

Anthony Storr

#17. His word alone stood between Kahlan and oblivion.

Terry Goodkind

#18. 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

#19. By her family circle. That was my phrase, one that could include me by some stretch of the imagination; 'circle' sounded too symmetrical, but it would have to do.

Emma Donoghue

#20. A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.

Friedrich Schiller

#21. 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

#22. If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier.

Lori Greiner

#23. Do not chafe at your bonds, dear.
It is only my heart that holds you;
That is easily broken.

Muna Lee

#24. 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

#25. The Society made it clear: we're not to injure each other. That's for the Enemy to do.

Ally Condie

#26. 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