Top 15 Nathan Oliveira Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Nathan Oliveira

#1. I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.

Barry McGee

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

Nathan Oliveira

#3. In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

George Earle Buckle

#4. Anyone knowing how to live for the moment, to live in the present as she did, treasuring every little wayside flower with loving care and deriving value from every playful little instant, had nothing to fear from life.

Hermann Hesse

#5. We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates' faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.

Anna Godbersen

#6. 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] ...

Nathan Oliveira

#7. 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.

Nathan Oliveira

#8. The sky is the sky wherever you go.

Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

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

Nathan Oliveira

#10. 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.

Nathan Oliveira