Doug Dawson famous quotes

If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.
-- Doug Dawson

#Color #Purple #Yellow

The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.
-- Doug Dawson

#Asking Questions #Effort #Trying

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.
-- Doug Dawson

#Ideas #Creative #Pool

I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.
-- Doug Dawson

#Gold #Texture #Way

No matter what the results, the act of searching will always enrich my work.
-- Doug Dawson

#Matter #Results

My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.
-- Doug Dawson

#Art #Office #Watches

For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.
-- Doug Dawson

#Strong #Truth #Creativity

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.

Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.

It's all or nothing with my makeup. If I get dressed up, I'll go to an extreme. I'll wear foundation, bright blue or bright red lipstick with one of my weird purple wigs.

Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple -- the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.

I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.