| "Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulous - not imitation...From it's ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought." |
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| "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does a painter do good things." |
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"I have the firm belief that the only things that are worth
doing are those that are a little scary. I don't listen to music when I paint and I prefer to work when I can be alone with the painting, usually at night, because I have to catch the rhythm that is inside me. There exists a state of feeling, and when you hit it you can't go wrong. The work carries a body rhythm. My true subject is the life of forms as revealed by light. Light reveals or conceals as it moves. Even colors in close values can give a feeling of light saturation. Light can be mysterious or it can dazzle. I want a free use of color to give me equivalents of these sensations. I have no desire to copy shadows or light patches, although they give me clues and directions and help me structure space. I pick and choose even while I empathize, becoming what is before me and surrounds me." |
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| "Talent developes in quiet places, character in the full current of human life." |
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W B YEATS, 1865-1939 |
| "I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could...I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at...not copy it." |
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GEORGIA O'KEEFE, 1887-1986 |
| "The illiterate of the future are not those who cannot read or write. They are those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." |
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| "I learned that seeing the shapes of individual pieces of color and simply transferring them onto paper was really the key to painting anything successfully." |
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THOMAS AQUINAS DALY, 1937- |
| "Landscape, of all representational modes seems to me to be the least affected by fashion, politics, trends, and is always the most timely. A landscape painting is like a weathered gray barn, reflecting the characteristic hues and atmosphere of any period. The visual field, of which we become aware as soon as we open our eyes, is a never-ending source of images. Through our investigation of landscape we can express our sense of the connectedness of things, where we stand in relation to them. Above all, we come in touch with those over-arching abstractions that govern our perceptions: the great and the small, near and far, up and down, sharp and soft, smooth and rough. None of this is likely to change soon..." |
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| "Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do." |
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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR, 1841-1919 |
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"Nuances are those subtle and seldom noticed differences
occurring in nature that many artists need to bring into their
work. Nuanced work depends on observation, under- standing and
application. Nuance is often the difference between ordinary
art and great art. The tenacious artist takes the time to get
it right. Good enough is not good enough. Further, tenacity and humility can be friends: "I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution--and often no doubt from anxiety about them." |
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JOHN CONSTABLE, 1776-1837 |
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