Schutz Quotes & Sayings

I feel
empty
confused
hurt
numb
disoriented
mad
vulnerable
insignificant
blurry
tired
sweaty
overwhelmed
temporary
anxious — Samantha Schutz

As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases. — William Schutz

I know I am sick, I just thought I was better. — Samantha Schutz

Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are. — Susan Polis Schutz

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

I was always a happy and loving person. Many would say that I was living an idyllic life. — Susan Polis Schutz

I have been telling myself
that these feelings are new,
but they aren't,
I just didn't connect them before — Samantha Schutz

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

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

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork. — William Schutz

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

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

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

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair ... — Susan Polis Schutz

But shouldn't a limitless possibility of bad open the spectrum for a limitless possibility of good? — Samantha Schutz

We need a voice from the outside because our own voices cannot be trusted. — Samantha Schutz

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

Everyone is looking up toward us, but I am looking back. — Samantha Schutz

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

So afraid to go outside,
to be happy,
to be with other people,
because they do not understand what it is like. — Samantha Schutz

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

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

Where you are
and what you are doing
is something you have done
dozens of times before
without any problems
Recognize that you are going to get out of this
that you always get out of this
that you are going to live
that you won't go crazy
I am telling you that you will live,
because you always live,
because you are strong
and beautiful. — Samantha Schutz

How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will find that dozens of behaviors change automatically. If, for example, I increase my feelings of self-competence, I will probably be less defensive, less angered by criticism, less devastated if I do not get a raise, less anxious when I come to work, better able to make decisions, and more able to appreciate and praise other people. — William Schutz

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

YOU WILL ALWAYS BE THE ONLY ONE FOR ME '
I always want to be with you
more than with anyone else.
I always want to talk to you
before anyone else.
I always want to laugh with you
* walk with you ?
* read with you
* play with you
* be quiet with you
* be noisy with you
make plans with you
discuss the past and future with you
You will always be the person who makes me happy, content, excited and peaceful
No matter how much time passes our love will not only prevail but it will be stronger than ever .. — Susan Polis Schutz

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

Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear. — William Schutz

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. — Susan Polis Schutz

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

If every decision would reflect our feelings as well as our reason, the world would be a better place to live. — Susan Polis Schutz

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

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

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

All bad nights come to an end. — Samantha Schutz

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

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

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

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

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

I visit him a few times downtown
while he paints.
We talk about how he's going to Spain
for the fall semester
and he shows me a painting he did
and points to this one part,
a bridge, and tells me he thought of me
when he painted it.
It is so sad
how knowing something
so small
can make me so happy. — Samantha Schutz

I cry and wonder
how I'm going to fall asleep
because sleeping means waking
and going through all this again — Samantha Schutz

I am left with a feeling and I cannot tell if it's emptiness or fullness. — Samantha Schutz

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

Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs. — Susan Polis Schutz

Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty. — I.L. Peretz

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

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

She becomes the voice of reason
when there is none — Samantha Schutz

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

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

I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize. — Dana Schutz

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

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

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

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

Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music ... Rise up and touch the stars — Susan Polis Schutz

I want things so bad that I force them, push them until they tear. — Samantha Schutz

I feel like a marionette -
like someone else is pulling the strings
and I have no choice but to comply. — Samantha Schutz

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

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

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

I am fearful of romantic dinners,
huge crowds, dusk -
of normal things-
afraid to be loved,
the one thing I want most.
Maybe it's because I don't think I deserve it
because I am not that perfect
little girl that I was supposed to be,
well manicured and well groomed,
because I have nervous breakdowns,
and take pills,
and keep moving on. — Samantha Schutz

Most days I go home crying
and my dad tells me
welcome to the real world. — Samantha Schutz

I am the cure and the disease. — Samantha Schutz

I am jealous of the little kid
spinning around near the fountain.
What would these people think
if I were to start spinning
with my arms spread wide?
A lunatic on drugs, probably.
My greatest accomplishment here is not caring,
letting go of other people's opinions.
I am not wound as tight.
I can let go,
just no spinning yet. — Samantha Schutz

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

It's good to know that I'm not the only unsuicidal person thinking about killing herself. — Samantha Schutz

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

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

A bad decision well implemented is better than a brilliant decision not well implemented. — Peter Schutz

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

I LOVE YOU SO MANY REASONS '

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Before i met you
I spent a lot of time
meeting all kinds of people
i had a lot of fun
and learned a lot
Though each person I met
had great characteristics
something was missing
No one person
had all the qualities that
I had hoped a person could have-
someone whose every action
and thought I could respect
someone who was very intelligent
yet could also be fun-loving
someone who was sensitive, yet virile
exciting and sensuous
someone who knew what they wanted
out of life.
a beautiful person inside and out
I could not find a person like this
until i met you — Susan Polis Schutz

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

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

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

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

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

I miss how things were familiar with him, even if it was the familiar feeling of being let down. — Samantha Schutz

The panic, a voice in the distance -loud enough to hear, but quiet enough to ignore. — Samantha Schutz

This hurts more than anything else because I cannot stop it. — Samantha Schutz

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

Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship. — Susan Polis Schutz

My heart is empty.
But my brain -
my brain is full.
It races with thoughts
of what could have been. — Samantha Schutz

I could always count on him letting me down. — Samantha Schutz

An eye here, lips there, all misplaced and disjointed, all make sense. — Samantha Schutz

Most days it feels like I am watching a movie
where the sound isn't in sync,
the speed is all wrong.
Either I'm moving too quickly
and the world is dripping along,
or the world is moving too quickly, cosmic,
and I'm oozing like a slug
barely able to pull my own weight.
It's best if I keep moving
because if I stopped and stood still
people would see me shaking. — Samantha Schutz

I feel racing and suspension all at once. — Samantha Schutz

I'm trying to decide what's worse. Someone being gone, but still out there, or someone being gone forever, dead. I think someone being gone, but still out there, might be worse. Then there's always the chance, the hoping, the wondering if things might change. If maybe one day he'll come back. There's also the wondering about what his new life is like. The life without you. Is he happier? And if he is, you're left being sad, wondering what it would be like if you were happy with him. But when someone is dead, he's dead. He's not coming back. There is no second chance. Death is a period at the end of a sentence. Someone gone, but still out there, is an ellipsis ... or a question to be answered. — Samantha Schutz

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

I am so close to the edge that I could vomit, so close that it would be easy to jump. — Samantha Schutz

I can't believe
no one else can hear
I am screaming
inside my head.
Things are moving too fast.
I am going to die.
I am going to die.
I am going to die.
My hands are shaking.
I try to squeeze them, try to make it stop,
but now my fists are shaking,
and this shaking is working it's way through me.
It must look like I am having a fit.
I want to let the scream out,
but I think if I start,
I'll never stop.
It's not supposed to be like this.
I am too young to die.
I don't know how to make this end,
and if it doesn't, I'll have to go to the hospital,
be medicated, force-fed soft foods.
I don't want to be that person.
I am not that person.
I am not.
I am not. — Samantha Schutz

People should follow their own energy. — William Schutz

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

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

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

Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame. — William Schutz