Myfanwy Pavelic famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.
-- Myfanwy Pavelic

#Jumping #Done #Use
When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.
-- Myfanwy Pavelic

#Tired #Oil #Design
The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.
-- Myfanwy Pavelic

#Progress #Shapes #Easy
People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?
-- Myfanwy Pavelic

#People #Landscape #Doe
And yet my life seemed to be just one big mass of people. I would never ask some people in for tea to fill up time. I just never would do it. Whenever I seemed to have a quiet hole, I would paint. That was what I would choose to do to fill up the time.
-- Myfanwy Pavelic

#People #Solitude #Tea

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.
We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.
Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.
I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

Myfanwy Pavelic famous quotes

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