Doug Dawson quotes
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“If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.”
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“The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.”
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“We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.”
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“I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.”
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“No matter what the results, the act of searching will always enrich my work.”
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“My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.”
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“For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.”
-- Doug Dawson
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“Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.”
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“I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.”
Source : Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”
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“Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.”
Source : Song: Turn Back the Clock
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Source : "Rockers Plug In for Katrina". Ventura County Star, September 10, 2005.
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“I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.”
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Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.122, Random House
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