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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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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One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.
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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
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I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe.
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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.
