Leland Bell famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.
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I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.
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Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until these all coalesce into a marvellous kind of rhythm that reveals the life of the painting.
-- Leland Bell
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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The more an artist works the more there is to do.
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We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
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There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.
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Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!
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I love playing odd roles.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
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