“I get just as excited about building a birdhouse as when providing strategic counsel to a client.” Quote by Robert L. Peters
“Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?” HellDoubtMiddlePaintingWoodsFactorsAll Alone Author:Neil Welliver
“I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.” PaintingPaintBottomFinishedFinishing Author:Neil Welliver
“I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.” WorldLongHas BeensArtFactsResultsObjectsMaterialsInvolvedLong TimeDestructionProductionsOddCyclesOur WorldConsumptionRejectedJunkPseudoFloodingContemporary Art Author:Arman
“When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.” ChildrenFourSubjectsPerspectiveDrawingGood RelationshipSketching Author:Arman
“Through the history of art we can see through the emotional life, and sometimes the financial security of some of the artists, some transformation. And I really believe that it's generally about the same kind of transformation and the same kind of reaction. We are a little bit less individual than we would like to believe or guess we are.” BelieveKindLittlesArtSometimesArtistIndividualBitsSecurityEmotionalLittle BitTransformationFinancialIndividualityReactionsEmotional LifeFinancial Security Author:Arman
“if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.” IfsWantHumansLittlesHardBitsCan DoAnswersNew YorkDependsCoupleSolitudeLittle BitLonelyTownsPhonesLondonParisSolitaryYou Can Do ItHuman RelationsHuman Relationships Author:Arman
“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.” WorldEyeInterestCreatingEuropeContentmentAllowing Author:Nathan Oliveira
“I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.” DesireFiguresPaintingPaint Author:Nathan Oliveira
“For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing.” I CanDifferentBeautifulGivenStuffIssuesFiguresChangedColorPaintingMaterialsOilMediumsHuePigment Author:Nathan Oliveira
“What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.” FiguresCreatingModelsConcernedMetaphor Author:Nathan Oliveira