Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?
The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.
Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.
All is as beautiful as we think it.
There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.
Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.
The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
Self-education only produces expressions of self.
The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness.
Through art, mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. They are the bonds of a great Brotherhood. Those who are of the Brotherhood know each other, and time and space cannot separate them.
Educate yourself. Don't let me educate you
Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.
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