Andrew Forge Quotes

My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

Andrew Forge

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• In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Painting
  • Color

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ambition
  • Avarice

• The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Important
  • Want
  • Competition

• Sunlight is painting.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Painting
  • Sunlight

• Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Always
  • Name
  • Dead

• I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Like
  • Painting
  • Photography

• Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Ambition

• It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Ambition
  • Been
  • Animation

• People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Me
  • Fashion

• Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Ambition
  • Nomination

• 'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'

  

  Banksy
  • Pretty
  • Progress
  • Painting

• 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.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Study

• RADIO – DADA DIX whose monumental painting 'Barricade' now lost created such a sensation in Dresden

  

  Otto Dix
  • Lost
  • Painting

• I’ve known a lot of talented people but the people that really, really, achieve success – there is ambition, focus and drive behind it.

  

  Anna Sui
  • People
  • Success
  • Focus

• If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of sex, the hope of ambition, friendship-all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Children
  • Hope

• 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 affect us more or less intensely.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Painting
  • Shape
  • Absurd

• My one ambition is to play a hero.

  

  Sessue Hayakawa
  • Play
  • Hero
  • Ambition

• I don't have any spiritual anything.You shoot a guy with a gun, he dies. You step on a bug, the bug dies. There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Guy
  • Heaven
  • Spiritual

• My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

  

  Andrew Forge
  • Painting
  • Ambition
  • Alive