Robert Bateman Quotes

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• I take two walks up hills each day, and bike ride each morning. I also have an exercise bike to increase my heart rate. My…
• When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers…
• I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.
• Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago.
• In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no…
• My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces.…
• I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the natural world. I…
• Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put…
• Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.
• If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a…
• A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be…
• Nature is not a free lunch, but we treat it as a free lunch.
• I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher…
• The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?
• I prefer to hike in nature, give lectures, or be with family when not working.
• You begin paying more attention to what you're seeing when you know the names... If you don't know the names of plant and animal species…
• It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.
• After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't…
• If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.
• I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.

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