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...
ask fascinated fellow human interested
You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.
people spite
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.
element fact merely revelation strike truth
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
animals came father glad lost sorry three trying
When they came to get us, I was glad to see my father again, glad to get the animals out, glad to be alive. I'm sorry I lost three though...I was trying to get them all out.
baton crew east heard home house ok stay sticking sure together worked works
We worked together the whole time. The whole crew works like a family. Mr. Sheldon made sure I had a home to stay in, and we're all in the house (Mitchell, his father, and Stewart in east Baton Rouge). We've just been sticking together like family. I hadn't heard from some of my family, then I did...everyone's OK now, and so I can rest.
apple brand people sort suggesting using
Apple is the brand of people who are creative. Where they are using Apple is sort of suggesting artistic-ness.
commercial open
Hip-hop is very commercial and is very open to commercial messages.
acted guess helped partial
He acted like a champion. I guess I'm partial to him--he helped me out of that.
create holy informal people placement product relationship somewhat strategies structure work
In the past, product placements were negotiated in a somewhat informal way. What Maven Strategies has done is to really codify the relationship and create a structure for how much people get paid. That's one of the holy grails for product placement - to really work out what it is worth.
advertising campaigns planned pop responsive rest
In the past, advertising campaigns have been planned long in advance. But now advertising has become increasingly responsive to pop culture, so the campaigns can rest on something that's surprisingly recent.
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.
thinking use being-there
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
art spring promise
A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.