"Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it."

-- David Sylvester

#Empathy Quotes #Looks Quotes #Paint Quotes

“Disorder. But completeness...”
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.”

Source : Quoted in Collier's, 6 July 1912
“Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.”

Source : "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.
“As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank.”

Source : "Q&A – Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. September 2011.
“We don't have to fix anything.”
“Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.”
“It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.”
“I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?”

Source : "The Fraught, Fictional Road To A Sept. 11 Memorial". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. August 15, 2011.

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