Nathan Oliveira famous quotes

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 to unfold before my eyes.
-- Nathan Oliveira

#Eye #Creating #Europe

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
-- Nathan Oliveira

#Desire #Painting #Paint

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 can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing.
-- Nathan Oliveira

#Beautiful #Color #Oil

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.
-- Nathan Oliveira

#Creating #Metaphor #Figures

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 tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.
-- Nathan Oliveira

#Unique #Artist #Ideas

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details]...
-- Nathan Oliveira

#Reality #Mind #Gestures

See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.
-- Nathan Oliveira

#Recovery #Firsts #Strokes

If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.
-- Nathan Oliveira

#Portraiture #Looks #Forget

Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!

She'd barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her. - Beau

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.

By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.