Raphael Soyer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.
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From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives and times.
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If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.
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If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.
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Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.
-- Raphael Soyer
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.
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I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.
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Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.
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Jesus will brush aside your inabilities.
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After I brush on my moisturizer, I'll dip the same brush into foundation and mix it with the lotion to make tinted moisturizer.
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Grain is the brush stroke of photography.
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Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
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