Nathan Oliveira Quotes

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

Nathan Oliveira

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• I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Desire
  • Religious
  • Married

• Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Desire
  • Alone
  • Moment

• My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Food
  • Relationship
  • Desire

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Fall

• Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Together
  • Future
  • Faith

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Home
  • College

• In every living thing there is the desire for love.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• Why does love, even such love as he claims to practise, need the spectacle of beauty to bring it to life? What, in the abstract, do shapely legs have to do with love, or for that matter with desire? Or is that just the nature of nature, about which one does not ask questions?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Why
  • Nature

• Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Fierce

• I never had any desire to defend myself, and never did I seriously think about it.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Desire

• Desire is normal. Attention is normal, and that's okay.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Attention
  • Desire

• The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Time
  • City
  • Painting

• You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • People
  • Desire
  • Opinion

• We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

  

  Bob Dole
  • Desire

• I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

  

  Philip Guston
  • Desire
  • Thoughts
  • Painting

• In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Desire

• Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Art
  • Quality
  • Painting

• Why talk when you can paint?

  

  Milton Avery
  • Talk
  • Paint

• Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.

  

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • Success
  • Simple
  • Script

• WWE is growing every day, every week, and every month.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Growing

• I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

  

  Nathan Oliveira
  • Desire
  • Painting
  • Paint