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“Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Too Much Painting Impulsive

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.”

Light Form Mother Too Much Painting Decided Essence Valuable Passing Passings Boat Landscape Features Annoying Execution Locks Can Not Royal Academy Brightness Lightness Scholastics

Author:John Constable

“I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should be made exactly as one has perceived things in nature. But personal feeling is the main thing.”

Thinking Should Believe Made Feelings I Believe Too Much Painting Colour Conception Personal Feelings

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

“If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.”

Ifs Thinking Way Too Much Painting Ruins

Author:Chris Lilley

“Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.”

Thinking Wells Long Sometimes Bigs Chance Too Much One Thing Color Painting Paint Wide Landscape Broads Canvas Pencils

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.”

“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.”

Knows Looks Art Stills Ends Eye Artist Dark Careers Too Much Seeing Painting Safe Comfortable Tired Details Warm Blindness Needles Miniatures

Author:Ian McDonald

“Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.”

Looks Important Past Too Much Painting Areas Tone Sparkle Focal Point Pastel

Author:Paul Murray

“I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.”