Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject.… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult. — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
