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

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Source : "Kate portrait: First painting gets mixed reviews". BBC Interview, www.bbc.com. January 11, 2013.

Paul Emsley

#Strong Quotes #Faces Quotes #Portraiture Quotes

“We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.”
“My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.”
“From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.”
“If my body dies, let my body die, but do not let my country die.”
“Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.”
“When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.”
“An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.”
“At this very moment, Godâ€™s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!”

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