“Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.” Quote by Nita Engle
“Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.” KnowsTryingInspirationMotivationWaitingPainterOver YouRoofRoof Over Your Head Author:Nita Engle
“Gather and hoard your inspirations as you live, then recapture them as needed in the studio.” InspirationNeededStudios Author:Nita Engle
“The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.” CreativeStrongerMereInstinctProfitRevolutionaryMotive Author:Phil Karn
“No matter what you do, you're always hearing something.” MatterListeningNo Matter WhatHearing Author:George Brecht
“There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.” MomentsMusicInstrumentsMusical Author:George Brecht
“Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!” IfsArtInterestInteresting Author:George Rickey
“One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.” KnowsTryingKnowledgeFoolPerceptionDepthCardsThoroughAnatomySilhouettesThorough Knowledge Author:Ugo Mochi
“I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.” IdeasUseFeelingsMightBlackWhiteSpecialTalentMaterialsToolsLet MeHandleSteelPencilsSketchingSpecial Talents Author:Ugo Mochi
“For years I study. I look long at olive trees, all gray and silver, and watch the sunlight. Ah, yes, I am ver' lazy, but I see after I look long that it is perspective that give it this quality. Perspective, and absolute faith to the subject.” GivingYearsLooksLongQualityWatchesStudyTreeSubjectsPerspectiveAbsolutesLazySilverGraySunlightOlivesOlive Trees Author:Ugo Mochi