Sidney Nolan famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When the critics come around it's always too late.
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Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.
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I'm compelled and dedicated to transmitting emotions and I care for very little else.
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One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.
-- Sidney Nolan
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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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I'd worried that letting her get too close would break me. Unfortunately, I'd worried about that a little too late. Because I was broken. The Cage I was before Eva no longer existed. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I'd fallen in love with her. I'd allowed someone in and she hadn't want me. I hadn't been good enough. I never was.
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It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
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When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.
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I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.
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I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
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How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
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I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.
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