Tuymans Luc Quotes

#1. It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

Luc Tuymans

#2. If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer.

Luc Tuymans

#3. When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

Luc Tuymans

#4. Touring is always important to me. It's like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the reason I exist.

Katy Perry

#5. You are the doorway to the infinite.

Adyashanti

#6. Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception.

Luc Tuymans

#7. When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it. Then I get to the studio and, once the image starts to emerge and come together, pleasure kicks in. And then you can see things that no other person can see.

Luc Tuymans

#8. Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

Jason Behr

#10. When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Luc Tuymans

#11. I'm lucky my parents travel with me.

Paula Creamer

#12. An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

Luc Tuymans

#13. Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

Luc Tuymans

#14. I can help you shape your sitcom, I can help you think about what could make your sketch show better, but it won't help you get you a commission.

John Lloyd

#15. Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

Luc Tuymans

#16. It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

Dorothy Parker

#17. All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

Luc Tuymans

#18. There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Albert Camus

#19. It is in the contest that Fred Friendly, onetime CBS News president, made it clear that before any questions of "who controls the master switch.

Tim Wu