Paul Kane Quotes

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

Paul Kane

• Balance
• Painting
• Reassuring
• Consoling

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• Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Time
  • Character
  • American

• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Know
  • Deep
  • Scars

• I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Nothing
  • Vanity

• Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Good
  • Day
  • Makeup

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Hate
  • Nervous

• I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Think

• The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Work
  • Working
  • Lucky

• Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Hair
  • Youth
  • Your

• After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Happy
  • I Can
  • Be Happy

• It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Always
  • Positive
  • Possible

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Money
  • Business
  • Fun

• Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Good
  • Me
  • Loser

• The subject of Stalin's death permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation-both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents-and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Death
  • Reading
  • Heaven

• There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Strong
  • Balance
  • Humor

• Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms, well then think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affects us more or less intensely. Boisgeloup, winter 1934.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Winter

• I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Waiting
  • Would

• On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Day
  • Psychology
  • Details

• Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

  

  Paul Kane
  • Balance
  • Painting
  • Reassuring