Andrew Graham-Dixon famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.
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The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.
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Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw.
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The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.
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At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.
-- Andrew Graham-Dixon
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If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
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Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.
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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.
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Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.
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We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
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