Mordicai Gerstein Quotes
I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there.
Mordicai Gerstein
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
Karen Armstrong
Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.
Yani Tseng
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
Aaron Huey
I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
M. F. Husain
If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'
Angela Robinson
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
Odilon Redon
We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in
the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to
know what we do not know.
Plato
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
Virginia Woolf
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
Francis Bacon
I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.
Lao Tzu
It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.
Michelangelo
