Elements Quote by Richard Schmid

“Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.”

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An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.

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Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

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I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

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There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture…

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It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer…

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Use lots of paint and don't worry, they will make more...

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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…

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As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them…

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All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

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Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that…

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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…

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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement…

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