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“I’ll take weeks out doing drawings, watercolor studies, I may never use.  I’ll throw them in a backroom, never look at them again or...

“Technique must be solid, positive, but elastic, must not fall into formula, must adapt itself to the idea.  And for each new idea there...

“An artist has to train his responses more than other people do…He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician.  Discipline is not a...

“The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other...

“The act of creation is a kind of ritual.  The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation.  Human...

“I grant you the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotions reveal to him the hidden truths beneath...

“The scholar specialized in any field will find that the more he knows, the more he will have to learn…” Alberto Giacometti We have a...

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together”.               John Ruskin An artist’s work reflects who...

“Use all the talents you have now – don’t wait until you have ‘gotten better’. The forest would be very quiet if only the best birds...

“All art, literature and music must be brought forth with your heart’s blood.”                                Edward Munch Teaching is an...

“Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange, hostile world and us, a way of...

“When it Rains it Pours.”                                                                               Morton Salt Company It started...

“The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see.”  Edgar Degas I want to start by saying no good artist ever...

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance” Aristotle “Times Bounty A reader...

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements at the painters disposal for the expression of his...

“Imagination makes you see all kinds of things”                                                                     Georgia O’Keeffe If...

“As for what I am making now, perhaps it’s art; but it isn’t, it is at least equally interesting to me.”                                ...

“Talent does not declare itself in an instant.  It is not at the first attempt that one has the honesty to admit one’s inabilities.  How...

“It is all very well to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what one no longer sees except in memory.  A transformation is...

“Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away…making lines run into each other is not...