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...
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.
feels model painted painter preserving thinks took
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
entirely whether
Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.
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.
accurate copies faithfully hung model next since whether
Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.
animals love save stick
I wasn't leaving. If you love animals like I love animals, you'd stick with it, too. We did what we had to do to save them.
kept storm walls
We got them out right after the storm and kept them in the walls of the stable.
acted guess helped partial
He acted like a champion. I guess I'm partial to him--he helped me out of that.
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.