David Sylvester quotes

“Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.”
-- David Sylvester

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“Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.”
-- David Sylvester

Source : David Sylvester (1996). “About modern art: critical essays, 1948-96”, Vintage

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“The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.”

“I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.”

“I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs”

“It takes a great man to make a great listener”

“Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.”

Source : "AA Gill obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.

“Tut, Tut, looks like rain”

“There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.”

“I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.”

“I paint with my back to the world”

Source : Ned Rifkin, Agnes Martin, Edward Hirsch, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (2002). “Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond”, Hatje Cantz Pub

“He best can paint them who shall feel them most.”