There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.
You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.
We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.
Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.
A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.
A weak background is a deadly thing.
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.
Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?
There is no art without contemplation.
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.
Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.
A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
Your style is the way you talk in paint.
There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.
The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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