Sidney Nolan quotes
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“When the critics come around it's always too late.”
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“Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.”
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“I'm compelled and dedicated to transmitting emotions and I care for very little else.”
-- Sidney NolanSource : Barry Pearce, Sidney Nolan, Lou Klepac, Frances Lindsay, Art Gallery of New South Wales (2007). “Sidney Nolan”
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“One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.”
-- Sidney Nolan
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“Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.”
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“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”
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“The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.”
Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
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“I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”
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“How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.”
Source : Arna Wendell Bontemps (1973). “The Old South: "A summer tragedy" and other stories of the thirties”, Dodd Mead
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“I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.”
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