top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."
Standard
Customized
More
"Despite where you stand in life at the moment, always remember that your presence on earth matters as much as everyone else's."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The rupee becomes cheap [of less value] and is that why man becomes expensive [valuable] and when the rupee becomes expensive, man becomes cheap. At present, man has become cheap; he will become expensive again."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But what's worth more than gold?"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"A diamond will never tell you how valuable it is; if you don't already know, you are not worthy of it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You are worth more than what people say or think of you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"An ugly jar full of water is worth more than an empty beautiful one in the desert."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If roses were not special weeds would not envy them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Don't some people say, 'You did not value me'? What value did you have at all? Go ask the ocean, 'what is my worth?' You will be swept away with one wave. The owner of many waves has swept away many a people like you! Worth is in those people who have no attachment-abhorrence."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The price tag that you put on your soul will determine the people and circumstances in which you find yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
Interest
"Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen."
Will
"I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do."
Art
"The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art."
Nature
"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."
Worth
"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."
People
"My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings."
Work
"A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art."
Life
"Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid."
Want
"Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much."
Now
bottom of page