Nathan Oliveira quotes
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“Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.”
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“I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.”
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“For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing.”
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“What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.”
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“I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.”
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“The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details]...”
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“See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.”
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“If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.”
-- Nathan OliveiraSource : Nathan Oliveira, Eugenia Parry, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries (1991). “Nathan Oliveira: paintings and works on paper, 1959-1991”
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Source : Adam Clarke (1831). “Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace”, p.301
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“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”
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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.”
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