Mordicai Gerstein famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Color #Looks #Texture
I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Morning #Miracle #Sunrise
Every book is a unique experience.
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Book #Unique #Unique Experiences
You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Book #Different #World
I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Thinking #Gadgets #Computer
We are creatures like everything else in our world.
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Our World #World #Creatures
I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the world, being in the woods and taking things in. We're seeing the world as if for the first time. That's just fascinating.
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#First Impression #Monsters #World
People have their own ideas how about they should appear.
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Ideas #People #Should
It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Thinking #Long #Painting
I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there.
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Thinking #Experts #Painting
If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fix it, change it, whatever it is, to something that I'm comfortable with, that doesn't make me itch when I look at it.
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Looks #Littles #Painting
I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Achieve #Greater

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