Artist Quote by Sergei Bongart Download Open image “Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!” — Sergei Bongart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Chance First time Firsts Life Like Life Second chance Watercolor Watercolor Like Watercolors
I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors. — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint. — Rex Brandt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the reason memories of youth are always in watercolor, is because it ends before it can be put in more vivid colors — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Color comes very easy to me. And watercolors have a particular tendency to stay grounded, unlike digital color. I find that digital color wants… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had… — Joseph Raffael Copy Share Image
Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not… — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome! — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two. — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul. — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original. — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not… — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
First trust your eyes... then check by rules. Many times something else is happening, and the rules will not apply. — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small. — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the same way:… — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image