“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
“I put my heart and soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
“If I could find anything blacker than black, I’d use it.”
“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence of the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.”
“I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful.”
“Nothing in art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.”
“The painter’s ideas don’t come to him on wings while he dreams… without untiring diligence, single-mindedness and a combative spirit, there can’t be…”
“The finished job was sent back for just one correction. The editors asked me to clean up the boy a bit since he isn’t old enough to get that dirty. Actually, he was fully that dirty, but I pleased both the editors and his mother by cleaning him up a little.”
"Leutze wanted to convey the idea of Washington’s heroism and to mythologize him, and you’re not going to do that necessarily by getting terribly hung up on factual information.” (could not find direct quote from the artist for this one.)
ESFP – Frederic Remington
“Art is a she-devil of a mistress, and if at times in earlier days she would not even stoop to my way of thinking, I have persevered and will so continue.”
ESTP – John James Audubon
“Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.”
“The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life: the sun will not rise, or set, without my notice and thanks.”
“I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.”
“I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I’m doing so I’ll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject’s personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.”
“My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.”
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