Top 7 Nathan Oliveira Quotes

#1. If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.

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#2. The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details] ...

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#3. I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.

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#4. See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.

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#5. Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.

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#6. What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

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#7. I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

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