Thomas S. Buechner quotes
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“Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.”
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“An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.”
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“I have never painted as well as I thought I should, so frustration came early...”
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“Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.”
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“A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.”
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“It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.”
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“I'm interested in human vulnerability. We are alone, and my portraits reflect this quality. I don't want anything to get in the way of this feeling.”
-- Thomas S. Buechner
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Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.
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“Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.”
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Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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“My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.”
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“Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.”
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“Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.”
Source : Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.169, Sandesh S
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