My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.
Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.
God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
The best artists know what to leave out.
The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.
Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.
My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color. ' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.
Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.
