A few of my favorite quotes:
“Our painterly painting friends are surrounded by seeming contradictions. They finish by not finishing, include by leaving out, paint more by painting less.” – Charles Movalli
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.” – Voltaire
“The more brush mileage I accrue, the less I let details get in my way.” – David Gary
“It is better to fail at boldness than to succeed at timidity.” – Charles Movalli
“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.” – Robert Henri
“A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.” – Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
“Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.” – Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
“It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.” – Charles Hawthorne
Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts. -John F. Carlson
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colour. When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject. I expect there will be a whole range of wonderful new colours which will delight my celestial eye. – Sir Winston Churchill, ‘Painting as a Pastime’