Watercolour Quotes
12 quotes by 8 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: