“We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.” IfsIdeasCreativeFailingWillingExperimentsDespitePoolBe CreativeBreakthrough Author:Doug Dawson
“I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.” WayFoundGoldSurfaceMediumsOver ItLeafsTextureSealsPastel Author:Doug Dawson
“No matter what the results, the act of searching will always enrich my work.” MatterResultsNo Matter What Author:Doug Dawson
“My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.” ArtRoomsWatchesStudentsPaintingOfficeComfortableAreasMeetingsStudiosClientsArt Students Author:Doug Dawson
“For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.” TruthTogetherStrongCreativityColorComposition Author:Doug Dawson
“Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.” LightColorFlowerFlamesColourVolume Author:Charles Demuth
“The last mad throb of red just as it turns green; the ultimate shriek of orange calling all the blues of heaven for relief and support... each color almost regains the fun it must have felt within itself on forming the first rainbow.” FirstsLastsTurnsFunHeavenFeltSupportColorCallingRedUltimateGreenMadColourReliefRainbowOrange Author:Charles Demuth
“Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.” WritingEyeTalkingPaintingSingingUnderstoodSightDancingFinalsThrough The Eyes Author:Charles Demuth
“Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.” HumansSometimesBodyFormColorElementsRoseStrikesInstanceColourHuman Body Author:Ferdinand Hodler
“When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy.” LooksFeelingsLightEmotionDarknessSkyUnityDelightLook UpDarkness To LightGiddy Author:Ferdinand Hodler