Dana Schutz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You just have to work really hard and throw everything into it. ... It's really hard to be an artist, and even if you do work really hard, there's no guarantee about anything. There's no advice you can give someone that things will somehow work out, but you can talk to people about how they can make art a big part of their life.
-- Dana Schutz

#Art #People #Giving
My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits become events, and landscapes become constructions. I embrace the area between which the subject is composed and decomposing, formed and formless, inanimate and alive.
-- Dana Schutz

#Portraits #Events #Alive

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.

Dana Schutz famous quotes

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