- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picture Quotes
On screen roles, old movies, and the camera's eye.
Here the word picture mostly means film - an actor discussing how to play a villain convincingly, and a childhood movie memory vivid enough to cause literal nightmares for years. Related viewing continues in Life.
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- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful - an enclave, really, of retreat. It's not helpful for the big picture. It's totally selfish to run away like that.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a visual person, so it always starts with a picture, and then I get obsessed with the idea, sometimes too much. I have these blank books in which I take notes, and I add postcards and other physical items.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020