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“Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.”

Thinking Years Art Done Enough Use Artist Written Waste Years Ago Method Possession Had Enough Disgusted

Author:Edward Ruscha

“A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.”

Art Desire Artist Passion Method Methodology

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.”

Knows Used Artist Masters Photography Method Slave Loyal

Author:Robert Genn

“Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.”

Mind Done Facts Artist White Painting Pure Tradition Roots Empty Method Embrace Starting Flying Spots Emptiness Realising Strokes Brushes Penetrate Spontaneity Apparitions

Author:Antoni Tapies

“Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.”

Art Artist Painting Masters Areas Method Technique Contemporary Ease Abstract Competence Renaissance Abstract Painting

Author:Igor Babailov

“In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.”

Men May Artist Messages Method Perceive Acquire Innate

Book:The principles of playmaking: and other discussions of the drama

Source: The principles of playmaking: and other discussions of the drama

“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.”

Thinking World Way Needs Wells Littles Different Moments Seems Happens Artist Found Growth Natural Modern Strange Method Paint Technique Unusual Usual New Ways Modern Art

Author:Jackson Pollock

“I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's essential to continually experiment with different subject matter, types of paint and methods of painting.”

Thinking Art Different Matter Artist Subjects Painting Type Essentials Training Method Paint Experiments Formal Subject Matter Art History Different Subjects

Author:Ron Parker

“Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.”

Matter Artist Pay Painting Method Paint Profession What Matters

Author:Jim Rowe

“Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.”

Writing Wells Mean Doe Said Motivational Artist Order Forget Becoming Method Technique Grammar

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.”

Faces Artist Method Evolve Demon

Author:Steven Pressfield