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“Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.”

Poor Subjects Paint Incentives

Author:Robert Motherwell

“Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.”

Looks Study Subjects Paint Oneself

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.”

Want Children Subjects Paint Innocence

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.”

Firsts I Can Powerful Subjects Paint Obvious Obvious Things

Author:Richard Schmid

“Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Form Certain Impossible Magic Subjects Limits Elements Areas Paint Handle Pigment

Author:Richard Schmid

“You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not all subjects or light conditions appear that way... be sensible and paint with values that are appropriate and faithful to your subject.”

Way Light Values Clear Cutting Conditions Subjects Painting Stronger Sticks Paint Faithful Appropriate Yield Sensible Multitudes

Author:Richard Schmid

“I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.”

Thinking Want Writing Years Kind Would Be Able Subjects Politician Members Prison Paint Saint Gang Controversial Serials Laughable Gang Members

Author:Robert Draper

“I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.”

Thinking Knows Subjects Theory Paint

Author:Alice Neel

“It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.”

Feels Should Mean Desire Certain Speak Views Subjects Essentials Embrace Paint Point Of View Revelations Logical Conception Compelled Absolutely Nothing

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“I do have a dream, a tableau of the bathing place of La Grenouillère, for which I've done some bad pochades (sketches), but it is a dream. Renoir, who have just spent a couple of months here, also wants to paint this subject.”

Want Done Dream Subjects Months Couple Paint Bathing Renoir Tableau

Author:Claude Monet

“What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.”

Stories Seems Liberty Subjects Movement Painting Flower Importance Paint Significant

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.”

Subjects Paint Portraits Portraiture

Author:Jamie Wyeth

“I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.”

Character Wanted My Own Study Subjects Paint Portraits Portraiture

Author:William Dobell

“The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.”

Art Matter Light House Existence Tree Subjects Ought Mountain Paint Philosopher Abstract Towers Abstraction Subject Matter Spotlight

Author:Willem de Kooning

“What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.”

Ifs Shows Artist Wish Perfect Subjects Photography Absolutes Paint Photographer Painter Portraits Fidelity Old Days

Author:Aubrey Beardsley

“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

“A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.”

Feelings Subjects Painting Offers Paint Landscape Application Competence Demonstration Competent Homage Landscape Painting

Author:Keith Shackleton

“Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.”

Way Want Desire Subjects Draws Paint

Author:Gerald Brommer

“I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.”

Giving Art Whole Problem Beautiful Wish Subjects Changed Flower Give Me Paint Resolve Sensations

Author:Georges Vantongerloo

“I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.”

Trying Subjects Paint Technique Handle Sydney Preconceptions Tangier

Author:John Newbery

“To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.”

Needs Wells Subjects Paint

Author:Elizabeth Peyton

“People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.”

People Want Pleasure Subjects Paint Painter Involvement Blueprints Sense Of Place

Book:The art of landscape painting

Source: The art of landscape painting

“I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.”

Littles Subjects Effects Becoming Paint Lazy Preventing Sketchbooks

Author:Richard Billingham