Thomas S. Buechner famous quotes

Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.
-- Thomas S. Buechner

#Worry #Advice #Good Work

An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.
-- Thomas S. Buechner

#Dark #Artist #Light

I have never painted as well as I thought I should, so frustration came early...
-- Thomas S. Buechner

#Frustration #Should #Wells

Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.
-- Thomas S. Buechner

#Mirrors #Black #Trying

A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.
-- Thomas S. Buechner

#Color #Focus #Design

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.
-- Thomas S. Buechner

#Lying #Power #Emotional

I'm interested in human vulnerability. We are alone, and my portraits reflect this quality. I don't want anything to get in the way of this feeling.
-- Thomas S. Buechner

#Feelings #Quality #Want

To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

I just want to do really good work.

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.