"My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an……" — Richard Schmid
"My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses ."
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31 Quotes by Richard Schmid
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Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some…
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Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the…
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Never knowingly leave anything wrong on your canvas.
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When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.
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Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.
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Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent…
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I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel…
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What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea -…
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Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.
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There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or…
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It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter…
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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…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
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