Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest…

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

— Cindy Sherman

There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting…

— Walter J. Phillips

It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique…

— Walter J. Phillips

Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for…

— Walter J. Phillips

Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree…

— Walter J. Phillips

Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship…

— Walter J. Phillips

With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a…

— Andrew Wyeth

“Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.”

— Truth Devour

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would…

— Nicolas Roeg

Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure…

— Robert A. Lovett

“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a solution anymore,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another…

— David Hockney

Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive…

— Hugh Laurie

Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even…

— David Milne