Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Sidney Nolan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a painter Sidney Nolan.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Sidney Nolan

Sir Sidney Robert Nolan was one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of mediums, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known for his series of paintings on legends from Australian history, most famously Ned Kelly, the bushranger and outlaw. Nolan's stylised depiction of Kelly's armour has become an icon of Australian art.

Love slowly like a ship full of flowers.
I'm compelled and dedicated to transmitting emotions and I care for very little else.
When the critics come around it's always too late. — © Sidney Nolan
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.
One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.
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