Jeffrey Smart quotes
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“I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.”
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“I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.”
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“I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.”
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“Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me... a shape, a combination of shapes, a play of light or shadows and I send up a prayer because I know I have the germ of a picture.”
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“Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.”
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“Everybody gets inspired. We all have these moments. It just depends on whether you've got the ability to seize it.”
-- Jeffrey Smart
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“What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
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“A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.”
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“There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.”
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“Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion”
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