Robert Ryan famous quotes

I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.
-- Robert Ryan

#Character #Eye #Feelings

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.
-- Robert Ryan

#Feelings #Training #Intuition

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.
-- Robert Ryan

#Sadness #Light #Use

Choosing a way to die, what's the difference? Choosing a way to live, now that's the hard part.
-- Robert Ryan

#Meaningful #Differences #Way

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.

And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes of Nature and in its mirror you will see your image. You will knowthat when you hid from Nature, you hid from yourselfWe who have been turned away from Nature - if we desire life, we must establish a new relationship with Nature.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. If it were anything or anyone else, I could stand back and let him take it." His blue eyes gazed back at me. "But I can't let him have you.

The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.

When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.