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.

Nir Hod

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• I've never met anyone that is their image.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Never
  • Image
  • Met

• 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.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Knowledge
  • Image
  • Islam

• Every good painter paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Good
  • Art
  • Painter

• I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Writer
  • Storyteller

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Guy
  • Inspiration
  • Create

• The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Books
  • Image
  • Were

• 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.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Image
  • Decided
  • Publicity

• Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Beauty
  • Image
  • Infinite

• 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
  • Artist
  • Lawyer
  • Painter

• With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Pressure
  • Issues
  • Image

• 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.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Good
  • Film
  • Wanted

• 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
  • She
  • Woman
  • Intellectual

• The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Image
  • Poetic
  • Psyche

• 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.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Long
  • Satisfying

• It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Great
  • Stories
  • Thanks

• 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.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Truth
  • Door
  • Image

• A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

  

  Mary Astor
  • Movie
  • Actor
  • Writer

• At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Italian
  • Painter
  • Trudeau

• Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Actors
  • Painter
  • Singers

• Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Care

• There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Ways

• The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Kind
  • Justice
  • Liberty

• Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

  

  Nir Hod
  • Image
  • Painter
  • Storyteller