Then Schutz Quotes

#1. An eye here, lips there, all misplaced and disjointed, all make sense.

Samantha Schutz

#2. 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

#3. It would seem that losing the sadness would be a good thing, but it has been replaced by nothing -a quiet acceptance of this boring, everyday life.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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I am left with a feeling and I cannot tell if it's emptiness or fullness.

Samantha Schutz

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I feel
empty
confused
hurt
numb
disoriented
mad
vulnerable
insignificant
blurry
tired
sweaty
overwhelmed
temporary
anxious

Samantha Schutz

#12. 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

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

Dana Schutz

#14. 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

#15. This hurts more than anything else because I cannot stop it.

Samantha Schutz

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. I was always a happy and loving person. Many would say that I was living an idyllic life.

Susan Polis Schutz

#19. Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair ...

Susan Polis Schutz

#20. I could always count on him letting me down.

Samantha Schutz

#21. 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

#22. Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music ... Rise up and touch the stars

Susan Polis Schutz

#23. 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

#24. Most days I go home crying
and my dad tells me
welcome to the real world.

Samantha Schutz

#25. I have been telling myself
that these feelings are new,
but they aren't,
I just didn't connect them before

Samantha Schutz

#26. My heart is empty.
But my brain -
my brain is full.
It races with thoughts
of what could have been.

Samantha Schutz

#27. The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.

Marian Burros

#28. I am so close to the edge that I could vomit, so close that it would be easy to jump.

Samantha Schutz

#29. 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

#30. Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing,
going in circles, mounting each other.
Paris is the city of love,
even for the birds.

Samantha Schutz

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. I cry and wonder
how I'm going to fall asleep
because sleeping means waking
and going through all this again

Samantha Schutz

#34. 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

#35. Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame.

William Schutz

#36. As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.

William Schutz