Bigs Quote by Charles Webster Hawthorne

The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over…

— Myfanwy Pavelic

I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took,…

— Georges Braque

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he…

— Henri Matisse

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by…

— Morris Graves

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

— Pierre Bonnard

“Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture…

— Arthur Fry

As an artist, when you make something, you want the world to see it in its totality, especially when the intention is not to…

— Shweta Tripathi

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection…

— Ken Gillespie

I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares,…

— Bridget Riley