What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone. — 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 subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are… — 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
