Mary Beth McKenzie Quotes

• Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Giving, Imagination, Focus

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• Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Real, Long, Anxiety

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• I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Color, Portraiture, Shapes

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• Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Helping, Painting, Problem

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• Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Judging, Painting, Areas

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• Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Beautiful, Lines, Form

  Mary Beth Mckenzie (1987). “Painterly Approach”, Watson-Guptill

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• You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Artist, Evolution, Process

  Mary Beth Mckenzie (1987). “Painterly Approach”, Watson-Guptill

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• A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Change, Reality, Needs

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• I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Color, Pieces, Study

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• Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Eye, Artist, Easier

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• Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Sleep, Cat, People

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