Watercolors Quotes - Page 2

When I am recording on my own, it's like an oil painting: I can put that on top of that and build up layers. But with the band, it turned out more watercolor: you're leaving white bits of paper exposed, so that nothing is too overworked.

Conor O'Brien

White, Oil Painting, Leaving

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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‎"It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic.

Garth Nix

Dream, Real, Light

Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.254, Hot Key Books

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As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

Anne Sexton

"For My Lover, Returning to His Wife" l. 47 (1969)

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Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

Nate Berkus

White, Want, Pages

"Oprah's Designer Nate Berkus Tackles Twitter Backgrounds". Interview with Christina Warren, mashable.com. January 25, 2010.

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Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

Maureen Dowd

Volleyball, Eye, Garden

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In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

Christina Baker Kline

Teacher, Art, School

Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Peter Shaffer

New York, Oil Painting, London

The New York Times, April 13, 1975.

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We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor.

Alexander Rodchenko

Photography, Art, Struggle

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Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?" For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa's watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the youngest Featherington with a friendly smile and asked, "And how are your watercolors?" But Felicity, bless her heart, gave him a rather friendly smile herself and said nothing but, "I imagine they're fine, thank you.

Julia Quinn

Heart, Interesting, Friendly

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I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Egon Schiele

Art, Drawing, Erotic

Egon Schiele (1960). “Egon Shiele: 1890-1918 : [Institute of Contemporary Art Exhibition]”

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What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.

Jeff Melvoin

Love, Change, Girl

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And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

Andrew Wyeth

Knights, Drawing, Undisciplined

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I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Glasses, Expression, Oil

"The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany". Book by Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1987.

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As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which is probably not a surprise) and I love the theater and art museums. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

Sharon Creech

Art, Book, Museums

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For the patient who remained hospitalized a long time, an insidious metamorphosis took place - the outside world dimmed and faded like a watercolor exposed to the sun, while the hospital became the center and the only real part of the universe.

Marjorie Kellogg

Real, Long, World

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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.

Al Stewart

Running, Country, Travel

Song: The Year Of The Cat

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For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new.

Art Wolfe

Digital, Painting

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To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English to sign my name.

Liu Dan

Names, Signatures, Use

"Conversation with Liu Dan". Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.

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To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach

Bill Sienkiewicz

One Day, Different, Pieces

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My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

Matthew Modine

Father, Light, Age

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It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.

Liu Dan

Mistake, Tests, Ability

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I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

Marcel Dzama

Art, Drawing, Inuit

Source: therumpus.net

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You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.

Lissie

Land, Tree, Cheesy

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model is an image or picture of reality painted with logical symbols instead of with words, sounds or watercolors.

John L. Casti

Song, Teaching, Math

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Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.

Paul Strand

Order, Oil, Drawing

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