Scholder Fritz Quotes & Sayings

Sex makes you stupid — Donna Barnes

Cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event — Harold Rosenberg

The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change. — Bernard L. Schwartz

I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me. — Fritz Scholder

If you want more joy in your daily life, smile at the people you meet in the street, the woman sitting beside you on the bus or standing next to you in the queue at the airport, the waiter who brings your food, your colleagues or your employer. There's a great chance they'll smile back. — Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir

But he place a gentle palm under her chin and turned her face back to him. "I'm privileged to see you like this," he said, his eyes fierce. "Wear you social mask at your balls and parties and when you visit your friends out there, but when we are alone, just the two of us in here, promise me this: that you'll show me only your real face, no matter how ugly you might think it. That's our true intimacy, not sex, but the ability to be ourselves when we are together. (Winter Makepeace) — Elizabeth Hoyt

You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself ... so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you. — Fritz Scholder

Be open where you can and stealthy where you must — George R R Martin

The market made up new standards as it went along, by accepting the current price - however high - as the sole measure of value. Any idea of safety based on this uncritical approach was clearly illusory and replete with danger. — Benjamin Graham

Actually, I liked the fact that happenstance had brought him to the right place; it was comforting to know that that life would support us if only we were listening. — Neil Abramson

My score grows ever longer, and the day when it will all have to be totted up, like a long-time drunkard's bill in an alehouse, draws ever nearer. However will I pay? — Stephen King

But who knows why a man, though suffering, clings, above all the other well members, to the arm or leg which he knows must come off? — William Faulkner

I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things. — Fritz Scholder

Should I take anything?" I asked, as Shamus slammed the trunk shut.
"A healthy sense of self-preservation would be good," he said. — Devon Monk

The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins. — Fritz Scholder

If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich. — Greg Meyer

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium. — Fritz Scholder

Remember that life is short and death is long. — Fritz Scholder

Having a fling with you doesn't appeal to me. You're handsome, but you're too inexperienced and too arrogant to be good in bed. Having ridden many horses doesn't make you a good rider; it just proves that you can't recognize a good one or don't know how to keep her. You're too young for me, and in ten years, when you improve, I will be too old for you. So let's not speak of this again. A thin, high-pitched sound came from the wall. Miko was snickering. — Ilona Andrews

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. — Fritz Scholder