Richard Schmid Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do.

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Self, Experience

• I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Believe, Laughing

• It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

  Richard Schmid

  Rap, Two, Collaboration

• Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children, the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have. May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist.

  Richard Schmid

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Art

• Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle.

  Richard Schmid

  Preparation, Battle, Gears

• I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

  Richard Schmid

  People, Events, World

• 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.

  Richard Schmid

  Cutting, Yield, Light

• There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am.

  Richard Schmid

  Risk, Mind, Painting

• Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.

  Richard Schmid

  Order, Elements, May

• How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before we ruin it? We have all had that experience and we risk failure, or at the least mediocrity, if we ignore the voice in our art.

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Voice, Risk

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