Figures Quotes

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When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At… — Bruce Nauman
At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with… — Louise Bourgeois
Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle… — John Newman
The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist… — Eric Maisel
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best… — Charles Bartlett Johnson
All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different. — Yaphet Kotto
It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of… — Graham Sutherland
Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures. — Gyorgy Kepes
My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come… — Robert Genn
Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting… — Richard Diebenkorn
The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You… — Wayne Thiebaud
I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting,… — Wayne Thiebaud
The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches… — E. J. Hughes
I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college… — Steve Jobs
So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got… — Buddy Guy
Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic and social life… — Theodore Roosevelt
It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures. — Robert Bourassa
It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure… — Steve Jobs
I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures… — Emily Dickinson

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