Lucian Freud Quotes
I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.Lucian Freud
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot -
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley -
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot -
My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
Rachel Sklar -
I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
Nate Ruess Fun.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
Tamsin Egerton -
As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
Natalie Gulbis -
If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
Pamela Sue Martin -
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
Mandy Moore -
I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
Daisy Ridley
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos -
Education is neither eastern nor western.
Malala Yousafzai -
It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
Fay Godwin -
The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
Laura Innes
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The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.
Yoko Ono -
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
Peter Fonda -
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
Joseph Stalin -
I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.
Lucian Freud