William Dobell Quotes

#1. And it was a relief when they went to bed. For now she need not think about anybody.

Virginia Woolf

#2. A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

William Dobell

#3. History is, indeed, an argument without end.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#4. I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.

William Dobell

#5. I can't imagine facing the end of the day without a story to drop into on my way towards sleep.

Kate Morton

#6. My best work is always done ... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

William Dobell

#7. Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

James Buchan

#8. Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

Deepak Chopra

#9. So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

William Dobell

#10. Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.

Muhammad Ali

#11. I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

William Dobell

#12. ...concepts have three fundamental properties - contextuality, intentionality, and abstraction - which independent things do not. To produce a mental world from the physical world, the physical world must first explain how contextuality, intentionality, and abstraction can arise.

Ashish Dalela

#13. My sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.

William Dobell

#14. The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

William Dobell

#15. I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

William Dobell

#16. I hope that I never become a vogue. A vogue is damned and doomed forever.

Charles Bukowski

#17. Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.

William Dobell

#18. Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

Paul Theroux