Paul Emsley quotes
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“I'm always worried about the sitters - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable?”
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“I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.”
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“Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.”
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“I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces. I find them strong and contemporary.”
-- Paul EmsleySource : "Kate portrait: First painting gets mixed reviews". BBC Interview, www.bbc.com. January 11, 2013.
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“I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.”
-- Paul EmsleySource : "Kate portrait: First painting gets mixed reviews". www.bbc.com. January 11, 2013.
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“I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.”
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“As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.”
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“In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.”
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“No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives”
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“So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.”
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“No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice...”
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“A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.”
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“I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold.”