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Painting Quotes by Richard Schmid
- Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has…
- I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression…
- There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded,…
- It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before…
- Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may…
- How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before we ruin it?…
- 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 of…
- Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would…
- I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.
- 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 not…
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- My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested… — Dan Aykroyd
- All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time… — David Bailey
- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
- Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat