Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things. — Richard Schmid Art 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 Artist 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 Artist Copy Share Image
Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes… — Richard Schmid Battle 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 Artist 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 Adults Copy Share Image
I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings. — Richard Schmid Artist 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 Art 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… — Richard Schmid Abandon 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 Accepting Copy Share Image
What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill… — Richard Schmid Ability 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 Arrangements 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 Appropriate 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 Artist 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 Art 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 Art 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 Areas Copy Share Image
Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first. — Richard Schmid Firsts Copy Share Image
If we only thought of our feet as we walk, we'd miss everything else. — Richard Schmid Feet Copy Share Image
Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you. — Richard Schmid Arise Copy Share Image
When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart. — Richard Schmid Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a… — Richard Schmid Accomplished 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 Abstract 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 Artist Copy Share Image
The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished… — Richard Schmid Clarity 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 Artist Copy Share Image
I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan… — Richard Schmid Again and again Copy Share Image
