Will Barnet famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.
-- Will Barnet

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Woven through Timothy J. Clarkâ€™s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions which intrigue beyond the beautifully-painted forms of the subjects.
-- Will Barnet

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You have to believe in what you're doing. In the long run, you have to feel that what you're doing, regardless of the trends, will have a lasting quality. Someday someone may pick it up and recognize that it was superior.
-- Will Barnet

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I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.
-- Will Barnet

#Twilight #Dark #Want

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.
And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Will Barnet famous quotes

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