Top 84 Schutz's Quotes
#1. The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.
Marian Burros
#2. Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.
William Schutz
#3. The moment I drove away in September I felt like someone was following our car with an eraser, rubbing out my old life.
Samantha Schutz
#4. But waiting is killing me. Don't they understand? Don't they remember what it feels like? I want to have things settled. I can't stand the idea of not knowing.
Samantha Schutz
#5. I shut my eyes
and see a pocket of darkness.
I want to fold myself
flat and crisp,
slip inside of it
like a sheet of paper
into an envelope.
Samantha Schutz
#6. I am not happy. I am not unhappy. I am frozen somewhere in the middle that is so much worse. I am nowhere. Nothing is happening and I am getting more and more sad.
Samantha Schutz
#7. It's weird to hear this again -
to hear how I was perceived
by people before they got to know me.
Some of the girls thought I was a bitch -
aloof, distant -
but now they see the truth.
Samantha Schutz
#8. Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
I.L. Peretz
#9. Everyone is looking up toward us, but I am looking back.
Samantha Schutz
#10. I have found a comfortable space- five feet six inches, one hundred and thirty pounds, with long fingers and toes, small breasts, and I like what I see.
Samantha Schutz
#11. I crave broken men.
When I try to save other people
am I trying to save myself?
Am I covering up for my lack of strength
by putting people back together?
I am tired.
I want someone to save me -
build an intricate web
and place it beneath me in case I fall.
Samantha Schutz
#12. When I try to save other people am I trying to save myself? Am I covering up for my lack of strength by putting people back together?
Samantha Schutz
#13. We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what we know is wrong. We must stand up for our rights and for the rights of others, even if most people say we can't win.
Susan Polis Schutz
#15. But shouldn't a limitless possibility of bad open the spectrum for a limitless possibility of good?
Samantha Schutz
#16. Protection does not come in a bottle. It is in me, in my actions, in my thoughts. I am the best medicine for myself. I am the cure and the disease.
Samantha Schutz
#17. Spreading the word about depression is my mission. I am working to build awareness, educate people about the symptoms, and change public opinion and individual attitudes about depression.
Susan Polis Schutz
#18. Is this what all the years of schooling were for?
To prepare me for this
Sense of being stuck in the middle?
What was the point?
No one said I was going to be this sad.
No one said I would still be crying.
Samantha Schutz
#19. There are many people that we meet in our lives. But only a very few will make a lasting impression on our minds and hearts.
Susan Polis Schutz
#20. 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
#21. It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.
Susan Polis Schutz
#22. I am in a house. I am in one room and my anxiety is in another. It's close. I can feel it. I can go to it. But I won't.
Samantha Schutz
#23. So afraid to go outside,
to be happy,
to be with other people,
because they do not understand what it is like.
Samantha Schutz
#24. I was always a happy and loving person. Many would say that I was living an idyllic life.
Susan Polis Schutz
#25. All of a sudden the world opened up
and it's doing it again now.
In this garden there are so many stories,
so many other problems besides mine.
Samantha Schutz
#26. 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
#27. A bad decision well implemented is better than a brilliant decision not well implemented.
Peter Schutz
#29. Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.
Susan Polis Schutz
#31. I miss how things were familiar with him, even if it was the familiar feeling of being let down.
Samantha Schutz
#32. Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are.
Susan Polis Schutz
#33. 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
#34. I feel like a marionette -
like someone else is pulling the strings
and I have no choice but to comply.
Samantha Schutz
#35. The panic, a voice in the distance -loud enough to hear, but quiet enough to ignore.
Samantha Schutz
#36. Love is being honest with yourself at all times
being honest with the other person at all times
telling, listening, respecting the truth
and never pretending
Love is the source of reality
Susan Polis Schutz
#37. If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength.
William Schutz
#40. If every decision would reflect our feelings as well as our reason, the world would be a better place to live.
Susan Polis Schutz
#41. When someone cares ... it is easier to speak, it is easier to listen, it is easier to play, it is easier to work. When someone cares it is easier to laugh.
Susan Polis Schutz
#42. I want things so bad that I force them, push them until they tear.
Samantha Schutz
#43. My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.
Susan Polis Schutz
#44. If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings.
Susan Polis Schutz
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.
William Schutz
#48. The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown
A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown
The love that withholds touching,afraid of what it would say
And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is..,
it never fades away
Susan Polis Schutz
#50. I am trying to find myself
in all of the chaos,
find something that I can call me
inside the screams and inside
the 'you shoulds' and 'you have to bes.
Samantha Schutz
#51. I cry and wonder
how I'm going to fall asleep
because sleeping means waking
and going through all this again
Samantha Schutz
#52. 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
#53. I don't think that I am happy,
but then again, I don't know.
Sometimes I get so caught up
in the process of living--
of eating, dressing, taking the train to work,
that I don't give it enough thought.
Maybe happiness is being content.
But is it really?
Samantha Schutz
#54. Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing,
going in circles, mounting each other.
Paris is the city of love,
even for the birds.
Samantha Schutz
#55. It would seem that losing the sadness would be a good thing, but it has been replaced by nothing -a quiet acceptance of this boring, everyday life. I think it's even worse than being miserable. At least being miserable is active.
Samantha Schutz
#57. My heart is empty.
But my brain -
my brain is full.
It races with thoughts
of what could have been.
Samantha Schutz
#58. I have been telling myself
that these feelings are new,
but they aren't,
I just didn't connect them before
Samantha Schutz
#59. Most days I go home crying
and my dad tells me
welcome to the real world.
Samantha Schutz
#60. Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.
Susan Polis Schutz
#61. Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music ... Rise up and touch the stars
Susan Polis Schutz
#62. I don't like this idea
It is too much focus
on something I am trying to forget
I am afraid
that this attention to detail
will only fuel my anxiety
Samantha Schutz
#64. I am so close to the edge that I could vomit, so close that it would be easy to jump.
Samantha Schutz
#65. I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
Dana Schutz
#66. Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.
William Schutz
#67. Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs.
Susan Polis Schutz
#69. Since I can't be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.
Susan Polis Schutz
#70. It's good to know that I'm not the only unsuicidal person thinking about killing herself.
Samantha Schutz
#71. 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
#72. We need a voice from the outside because our own voices cannot be trusted.
Samantha Schutz
#73. This hurts more than anything else because I cannot stop it.
Samantha Schutz
#74. It feels like I have a raging fever, like my insides are melting. This must be what it feels like the moment before you die.
Samantha Schutz
#75. Putting the potential for damage into someone else's hands is scary. I have to have control, even if it is the power to self-destruct.
Samantha Schutz
#76. When kids make gross face,
parents say, "One day
your face is going to stick like that."
I'm afraid that one day
my panic's going to stick
and it's going to be my entire life,
every second,
and there will be nothing else.
Samantha Schutz
#77. I feel
empty
confused
hurt
numb
disoriented
mad
vulnerable
insignificant
blurry
tired
sweaty
overwhelmed
temporary
anxious
Samantha Schutz
#78. An eye here, lips there, all misplaced and disjointed, all make sense.
Samantha Schutz
#79. Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.
Susan Polis Schutz
#80. 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
#81. Come into the mountains, dear friend Leave society and take no one with you But your true self Get close to nature Your everyday games will be insignificant Notice the clouds spontaneously forming patterns And try to do that with your life.
Susan Polis Schutz
#82. I am left with a feeling and I cannot tell if it's emptiness or fullness.
Samantha Schutz
#83. I have only a general sense of the pain, of not being able to control my body and my thoughts. All I ever wanted was to have control- to be in charge of myself and the rest of the world.
Samantha Schutz
#84. Sometimes you think that you need to be perfect, that you cannot make mistakes ... realize you are a human being - like everyone else capable of reaching great potential but not capable of being perfect.
Susan Polis Schutz
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