Sidney Nolan quotes

“When the critics come around it's always too late.”
-- Sidney Nolan

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“Love slowly like a ship full of flowers.”
-- Sidney Nolan

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“Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.”
-- Sidney Nolan

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“I'm compelled and dedicated to transmitting emotions and I care for very little else.”
-- Sidney Nolan

Source : 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.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 24, 2013

“I'd worried that letting her get too close would break me. Unfortunately, I'd worried about that a little too late. Because I was broken. The Cage I was before Eva no longer existed. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I'd fallen in love with her. I'd allowed someone in and she hadn't want me. I hadn't been good enough. I never was.”

“It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.”

“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”

“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”

“When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.”

“I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”

“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

“I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.”