Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.
Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.
In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.
Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.
The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.
The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it.
...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.
Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.
Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.
