Roy Blount Jr. Quotes

All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Houston is a dynamic, international city shaped by leaders who dreamed big and acted with an eye firmly focused on the long term.

I love Atlanta, even the city.

Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

In an utter emptiness anything can take place.

Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

It's only through form that we can realize emptiness

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

I like any big city. I like any place where you can see a guy with a pants-full of pooh fighting a ghost.

London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.

I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!

The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all. The colors are there, but there is no image, nothing.

To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.