Natalia Yurchenko Quotes
A gymnast is a brush in an artist’s hand while the coach is the artist creating a painting with a brush. Then, the gymnast slowly becomes an artist in her own right. It’s a transformation. I enjoy both.
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My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
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Sunlight is painting.
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It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'
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The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.
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It happens that all those who have something of mine, painting, mobile, or static statue, say that it makes them very happy. For example, children adore mobile statues and understand their meaning immediately. I have seen children, here in France, in America or in Great Britain, run and shout with joy in my exhibitions. They like it instinctively.
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I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.
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The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.
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Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life.
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What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
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Baseball is a man maker.
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I was living in my coach's basement.
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It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
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I dislike paying taxes as much as anyone, but yes, taxes are the price of civilization. There is no America without taxes. The question isn't, "Do we want to have taxes?" The question is, "How heavy is the burden, and who bears that burden"?
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A gymnast is a brush in an artist’s hand while the coach is the artist creating a painting with a brush. Then, the gymnast slowly becomes an artist in her own right. It’s a transformation. I enjoy both.
