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Richard Schmid is an American artist renowned for his exquisite oil painting skills and profound depiction of natural landscapes. His works are highly esteemed in the art world, particularly for his ability to capture the changes of light and color.

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“I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.”

Believe Art Next Laughing Century Movement Students Painting Honestly Abstract Plastic Abstract Art Regression

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“What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.”

Giving Ideas Form Humanity Ability Skills Perception Insight Visuals

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“Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.”

Firsts I Can Powerful Subjects Paint Obvious Obvious Things

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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 unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am.”

Mind Ends Reason Accepting Risk Painting Convinced Wiser

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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 before he or she can ruin it.”

Two Painting Paint Rap Painter Ruins Collaboration Hammers

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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.”

Way Reason Simple Solutions Sticks Complexes Paint Complexity Exotic Overboard Simple Solutions

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“The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.”

Said Done Wish Finished Clarity Finishing

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“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.”

Should May Lasts Order Painting Elements Introducing Last Time Flexibility Flexible

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“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 .”

Art Reason Artist Mankind Impulse Idealism Sublime

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“Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Form Certain Impossible Magic Subjects Limits Elements Areas Paint Handle Pigment

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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.”

Children Art Skills Adults Innocent Innocence Great Art Innocent Children Wisdom Experience

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“How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before we ruin it? We have all had that experience and we risk failure, or at the least mediocrity, if we ignore the voice in our art.”

Ifs Art Voice Risk Painting Listening Ruins Crucial Mediocrity Begging

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

Use Worry Materials Paint

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“Paint like a pig eats.”

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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 of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do.”

Art Self Subjects Painting Experience Portraits Revealing Famous Artist Portraiture Self Portrait Self Portrait Photography

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“An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.”

Power Incomplete

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“Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle.”

Should States Painting Battle Weapons Prepared Preparation Be Prepared Brushes Gears Readiness

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“I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again.”

Thinking Mind Mean Sometimes Hard Done Problem Situation Clear Plans Strategy Starting Solve Again And Again Starting Over Whatever It Takes Scraping Starting Over Again

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“Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you.”

Should Passion Arise

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“If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.”

Ifs Knows Mind Looks Results Seeing Conflict Paint Like Something

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

People World Events Painting Endless Succession

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“The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.”

World Matter Eye Views Seeing Special Sight Point Of View Painter Simplest Portal

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“If we only thought of our feet as we walk, we'd miss everything else.”

Ifs Walks Feet Missing

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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 not all subjects or light conditions appear that way... be sensible and paint with values that are appropriate and faithful to your subject.”

Way Light Values Clear Cutting Conditions Subjects Painting Stronger Sticks Paint Faithful Appropriate Yield Sensible Multitudes

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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 down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes.”

Remember Spiritual Vision Forever Hundred Complexes Insight Painter Poetic Locked Arrangements Spiritual Insight

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“Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.”

Made Wish Secret Special Masters Paint Mediums Brushes

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“Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children, the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have. May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist.”

“Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you voluntarily set for yourself, and which you may change or abandon whenever you choose - without explanation to anyone.”

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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.”

Heart Art Song Voice Art Is Bursting

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“Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.”

Art Inspiration Inspiration To Others

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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 is a word we use after someone has become accomplished.”

Use Forget Talent Assuming Bother Accomplished

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About the Author

Born: 1934
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 32

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