Milton Avery famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.
I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

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