Desire Quote by Nathan Oliveira Download Open image “I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.” — Nathan Oliveira ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Figures Paint Painting
When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how… — Jason Shawn Alexander Copy Share Image
I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves. — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's… — Jason Shawn Alexander Copy Share Image
To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere. — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I… — Tom Wesselmann Copy Share Image
You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing. — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery. — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is. — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
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