Lucian
Lucian
Lucian of Samosatawas a rhetorician and satirist who wrote in the Greek language during the Second Sophistic. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature. Although he wrote solely in Greek, mainly Attic Greek, he was ethnically Assyrian. Lucian claimed to be a native speaker of a "barbarian tongue"which was most likely Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic...
drama people creative
I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.
routine timetables
I have a timetable, but no routine.
self-esteem naked done
The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.
taken quality painter
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
flesh want doe
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does
want knows
Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.
dance dancing
Dancing is as old as love.
grateful eternity slaying
Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.
passing-away world fleeting
The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?
knowledge knows
It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.
perspective soul wealth
The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.
fire effort frying-pans
The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.
dance voice lips
The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.
mercy enough
Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.