Top 10 Quotes by Rex Brandt

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

Perspective, Depth, Shapes

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

Paper, Paint, Fallen

"Watercolor techniques and methods: the twenty basic lessons adapted from The winning ways of watercolor for easy student and studio use".

The painting is usually finished before you are.

Rex Brandt

Painting, Finished

Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.

Rex Brandt

Dark, Light, Taught Us

The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

Rex Brandt

Friendly, Dabs, Looks

Rex Brandt (1984). “Seeing with a painter's eye”

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

Rex Brandt

Artist, Quality, Students

Rex Brandt (1977). “Watercolor techniques and methods: the twenty basic lessons adapted from The winning ways of watercolor for easy student and studio use”