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...
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Both companies are committed as never before to provide new entertainment services for the benefit of consumers, using 3G to harness the power and potential of new technology.
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It really is a measure of the brands that are important in pop culture. These are the brands that have for whatever reason created relevance that really resonates in pop culture. It's the brands people are using to define themselves right now.
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Finances would help, anything they can spare, it doesn't have to be much. The business is gone. All three of us are in the same house and running out of money and food.
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I had just prayed and hoped, and I seen the boss coming in with the trucks and trailers. We had only had communication with the police--we lost our cell phones and other phones the first night.
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Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
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Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
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I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
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What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.
portraits
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement
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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter
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The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle.
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I have a timetable, but no routine.
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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.