QUOTES - VARIOUS
"I'm totally convinced that the essence to good painting is drawing”
(S Garwood 2011 NZ)
(S Garwood 2011 NZ)
"The water-colourist is a poet.
He works by elimination, by paring a subject down to its essentials.
Water Colour therefore is a perfect medium for catching effects of light, a medium that is fresh, alive and responsive to the moment and the shifting moods of nature."
Ref 'Painting with Light' Betty L Schemm, ed Charles Mivasll 1978
He works by elimination, by paring a subject down to its essentials.
Water Colour therefore is a perfect medium for catching effects of light, a medium that is fresh, alive and responsive to the moment and the shifting moods of nature."
Ref 'Painting with Light' Betty L Schemm, ed Charles Mivasll 1978
To give life to a brush stroke, there can be no deception; the absorbent paper admits of no compromise either you become the stroke OR you will be forever separated from it by the timid speculation of your mind.
(Sumi e)
(Sumi e)
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web"
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls"
"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
Picasso
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls"
"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
Picasso