Watercolour Quotes

12 quotes by 8 authors

In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasize… — Robert Motherwell
With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small… — Andrew Wyeth
There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle… — Nicolas Roeg
With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story… — David Hockney
Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal,… — David Milne
Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but… — Walter J. Phillips
There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately… — Walter J. Phillips
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of… — Walter J. Phillips
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they… — Walter J. Phillips
It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as… — Walter J. Phillips
Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's… — Hugh Laurie
I wasn't allowed to wear make-up when I was young. I would melt crayons and try to put them on my lips, and I would… — Eva Longoria

Who Wrote These Watercolour Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 12 Watercolour Quotes as follows: