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Paint like a pig eats.
Richard Schmid / Artist
Paint
Pigs
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An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.
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Power
Incomplete
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Never knowingly leave anything wrong on your canvas.
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Use lots of paint and don't worry, they will make more.
Richard Schmid / Artist
Paint
Use
Worry
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If we only thought of our feet as we walk, we'd miss everything else.
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Feet
Missing
Walks
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Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.
Richard Schmid / Artist
Art
Inspiration
Inspiration To Others
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Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.
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Firsts
Obvious Things
Powerful
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Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you.
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Arise
Passion
Should
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When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.
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Art
Song
Voice
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I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.
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Events
People
World
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All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.
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Art
Children
Wisdom Experience
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Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.
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Exotic
Simple
Way
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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.
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Collaboration
Rap
Two
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My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .
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Art
Reason
Sublime
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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.
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Elements
May
Order
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Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished.
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Assuming
Talent
Use
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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.
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Battle
Gears
Preparation
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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.
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Art
Believe
Laughing
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Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.
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Secret
Special
Wish
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The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.
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Eye
Sight
Views
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If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.
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Conflict
Looks
Mind
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What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.
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Giving
Ideas
Skills
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The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.
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Done
Finishing
Wish
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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.
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Art
Experience
Smile
Portraits
Self
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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.
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Art
Risk
Voice
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As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes.
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Forever
Spiritual
Vision
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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.
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Ideas
Magic
Trying
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I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again.
Richard Schmid / Artist
Mean
Starting Over
Thinking
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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.
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Mind
Painting
Risk
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Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you voluntarily set for yourself, and which you may change or abandon whenever you choose - without explanation to anyone.
Richard Schmid / Artist
Choices
Matter
May
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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.
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Cutting
Light
Yield
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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 / Artist
Art
Gratitude
Spiritual
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