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“The successful painter is continually painting still life.”

Stills Successful Painting Painter Still Life

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.”

Art Simple Successful Painting Materials Productions Plus Equations Supplies

Author:Robert Genn

“If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?”

Ifs Long Art Stuff Forget Company Successful Records Four Painting Equal Lawyer Forget It Gallery Record Companies Patron Leonardo Publicists

Author:Debbie Harry

“The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.”

Fall Successful Painting Brushes

Author:Toni Onley

“Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.”

Doe Matter Successful Subjects Painting Determine Interpretation Equations Subject Matter

Author:Robert Reynolds

“Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.”

Ifs Art Reality Successful Painting Tasks Performances Questioning Affirmation Dexterity

Book:PS -- of Course: Patrick Swift, 1927-1983

Source: PS -- of Course: Patrick Swift, 1927-1983

“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.”

“Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.”

Successful Painting Categories Masterpiece Kitsch

Book:Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or

Source: Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or

“Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).”

Ifs Would Be Black White Successful Color Painting Amount Late Areas Colour Formulas Dots Black Or White Small Amounts

Author:Matthew Collings

“I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make myself more a part of the most beautiful painting as possible. And enjoy it.”

Trying Beautiful Artist Enjoy Successful Painting Pressure Being Successful Beautiful Paintings

Author:Dean Potter