Fritz Scholder Quotes

We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

I'm so optimistic, it's depressing.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.