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...
brands created define measure people pop reason relevance resonates themselves using whatever
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.
ducks skins recipes
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.
emotional want significance
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
independent emotional want
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.
painting seducing convince
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.
portraits
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
erotic matter sides
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter
miracle looks attention
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.
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.
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
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.