Euan Uglow famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.
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I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.
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I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark.
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I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you would call straight abstract paintings. And anyway it is so much more exciting trying to find out about the three dimensions of color and sticking it down on a two dimensional surface.
-- Euan Uglow
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Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
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I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
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My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.
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When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
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