Paul Emsley famous quotes

I'm always worried about the sitters - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable?
-- Paul Emsley

#Anxiety #Hot #Cold

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.
-- Paul Emsley

#Believe #Artist #Views

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.
-- Paul Emsley

#Photography #Today #Easier

I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces. I find them strong and contemporary.
-- Paul Emsley

#Strong #Faces #Portraiture

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.
-- Paul Emsley

#Fall #Light #Shadow

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.
-- Paul Emsley

#Symbolism #Bulls #Density

As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
-- Paul Emsley

#Artist #Please

The feeling that was born that night, how could i describe it?Words like love or lust just don't seem right. I may call it jealousy, or may be anxiety and moreover, need. Even now I'm anxious at times because when I am with Ren, everything around feels like a dream. That was how Ren turned my boring life into an illusion, and that was too much for no matter how hard i tried, it seemed I could never catch him.

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.

No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives

So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.

No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice...

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.

I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold.