Bleckner Quotes & Sayings

Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Effort is grossly underrated. — Gary Vaynerchuk

It wasn't that much of a stretch to play a gay demon. I am, you know, both gay and a demon. Don't tell my wife. — Ken Marino

Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of?
Jesus' words, "Forgive them for they do not know what they do," also apply to yourself. — Eckhart Tolle

My mistakes are my life. — Samuel Beckett

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

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

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

It almost seems that if you can describe it, you can change it. — Ross Bleckner

Battles waged in daylight are fought by soldiers. Battles waged at night are fought by savages. — Lance Conrad

If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would. — J.C. Ryle

It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

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

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

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

A community of people, that's the really what art school is. — Ross Bleckner

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

Bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world. — Ross Bleckner

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible. — Nate Ruess

I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. Everything else is extraneous. I never entertain, because to me, New York is about meeting people in public spaces, absorbing a little bit of their energy. — Ross Bleckner

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself. — Ross Bleckner