A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art. . . consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!
It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.
There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.
The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.
I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!. . . Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.
When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.
Mentally, (consistency) is important when you're not used to rugby at that level. Some of the smaller teams in this tournament are staying with the stronger sides for 60 minutes, but not the full 80 because of it.
Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.