David Cobley quotes
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“Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!”
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“People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.”
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“All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.”
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“As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.”
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“Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.”
-- David Cobley
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“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”
Source : "Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization". Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.
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“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.”
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“To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.”
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