Nir Hod Quotes
Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.
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I've never met anyone that is their image.
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I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.
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I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.
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The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
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I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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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.'
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With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us.
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
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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.
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The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche.
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There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.
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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
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An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happen that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discovers the truth, because of his own efforts.
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The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
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I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.
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Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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Too many people think that the faith line divides Muslims and Christians or Jews and Hindus, or just to say that there is this clash of civilizations and people from different religions are inevitably against each other, inherently opposed to each other. I don't believe that for a second. I think the faith line divides totalitarians and pluralists, which is to say that totalitarians from different religious backgrounds.
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Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.
