Wolf Kahn Quotes

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• I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh, it becomes too…
• People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one…
• Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas.
• I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted…
• Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.
• The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite…
• Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.
• I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a…
• There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.
• To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.
• It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands. The…

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