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...
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.
artist next interest
And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.
artist surroundings
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
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.
secret taught claims
The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
morning giving-up ambitious
It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.
dog love-is hatred
I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.
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.
army soldier world
The American soldier demonstrated that, properly equipped, trained and led, he has no superior among all the armies of the world.
happiness night thinking
The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
dance dancing
Dancing is as old as love.
grateful eternity slaying
Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.