Guity Novin Quotes
born 1944 Canada
Guity Novin (born April 21, 1944, in Kermanshah) is an Iranian-Canadian painter best known for her style of painting, called Transpressionism.
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Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase.
Setareh-e-Cinema (1973)
A hero; in our dark, indifferent and cruel universe is the one who makes life bearable and meaningful for human condition.
I never have restricted myself into a frame of a particular technique. My techniques are determined simultaneously along with the subjects of my works. It is similar to the works of a poet, the form of a poem is determined at the same time as its content.
Etelaat (1973)
It is easy to start a war, but its end is decided by will-o-the-wisp, which is so effective in deceiving travelers on this road!
Performance of the violinist -- it's all in the interpretation and all the virtuosity comes out of the context of the interpretation!
In my paintings, the question on whether figures are similar or not is not of any importance, the slightest change of figure or color can create a new painting and it doesn't really matter if a subject is revisited by an artist repeatedly. With enough time in between paintings, an artist can always bring to it something new.
Ayandegan (1973)
In my opinion, people in our society are becoming like clones. Children are not reading books , and they are not learning by doing. They're just sitting and watching each other be pretty. Like my vases.
Etelaat-e-Banoovan (1971)
If Marx were still alive, he would write: “Social networks are the opium of nations!
Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.
Negin (1971)
Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the purpose of art in general. Because it means that one cannot expect from an artifact, that is created with mathematical laws, to establish an improbable and irrational relationship between the work and the viewer.
Negin (1971)
These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that it affects their works. Of course, artists need sensibility; sensibility towards their environment and their community, but when they are stirred enough by their experiences in their society they can create their art in small studios.
Negin (1971)
I love to experiment with all styles, and do not have any particular prejudice or bias towards any specific style. These works appear, and they turn out, the way they should. I do not decide in what style I want to paint. I am only experimenting. Even Picasso, when he arrived at Cubism, had already experimented with a lot of other styles.
Ayandegan (1973)