Brushes Quote by Richard Schmid

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you…

— Richard Schmid

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.

— Richard Schmid

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

— Richard Schmid

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

— Richard Schmid

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

— Richard Schmid

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

— Richard Schmid

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

— Richard Schmid

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…

— Richard Schmid

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…

— Richard Schmid

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

— Richard Schmid

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

— Richard Schmid

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…

— Richard Schmid