T. Allen Lawson Quotes

• If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Differences, Tree, Done

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• The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Artist, Transition, Lines

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• What you work hardest at, you love the most.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Work, Hard Work, Hardest

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• Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Art, Wall, Space

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• If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

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  Commerce, Ifs

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• It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Artist, Benefits, Helping

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• I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Art, Building Up, Knives

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