Euan Uglow quotes
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“I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.”
-- Euan UglowSource : Catherine Lampert, Richard Kendall, Euan Uglow (2007). “Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné”, p.38, Yale University Press
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“I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.”
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“I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark.”
-- Euan UglowSource : Catherine Lampert, Richard Kendall, Euan Uglow (2007). “Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné”, p.52, Yale University Press
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“I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you would call straight abstract paintings. And anyway it is so much more exciting trying to find out about the three dimensions of color and sticking it down on a two dimensional surface.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”
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“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
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“My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.”
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“When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.”
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