Gerald Brommer famous quotes

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.
-- Gerald Brommer

#Artist #Expression #Sound

Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.
-- Gerald Brommer

#Desire #Want #Way

In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.
-- Gerald Brommer

#Moving #Editing #Add

Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.
-- Gerald Brommer

#Editing #Firsts #Steps

Without emotional content we make pictures; with it, we create art.
-- Gerald Brommer

#Art #Emotional #Emotion

The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.
-- Gerald Brommer

#Inspiration #Ideas #Purpose

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.
-- Gerald Brommer

#Meaningful #Substance

Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?
-- Gerald Brommer

#Artist #Ideas #Personality

Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.
-- Gerald Brommer

#Understanding #Way #Painting

What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...

Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.

I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.