"If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there."

-- Richard Schmid

#Mind Quotes #Looks Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.”
“I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it”
“The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.”
“And one of the challenges, of course, is to convince people that Muslims would like to be free, that there's other people other than people in Britain and America that would like to be free in the world.”
“Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.”
“The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?”

Source : "Conversations with Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, p. 106, 1961.
“When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do that," but I'm actually a very skilled artist. That's why I released a Jack Nicholson portrait right after that that was very detailed in the face to show my skills.”

Source : Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com.
“Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.”

You may also like: