A canvas should capture more than the eye appreciates.
Artist: Johannes Vermeer
Everyone can capture an image.
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
Artist: Ansel Adams
Modern digital cameras and smartphones allow anyone to save a jpeg or png.
The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can’t forget. It doesn’t have to be technically good at all.
Artist: Steve McCurry
Truly great photographers will always be recognized.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Artist: Dorothea Lange
The ability to place the right pigment, the true survey of lighting and shadowing is important to the photographer,
but the paintbrush relies on a journey from a design that ends up with the mind and it’s interpretation of a concept that must meet what the mind and eye is committed to exhibit…
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced
Artist: Vincent Van Gogh
so that in the end, there exists a creation that is more than just the pleasant amounts of colors, hues, and shadows.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.
Artist: Claude Monet
The canvas should both attract and entice you to enter and return again,
Artist: Claude Monet
as one would anticipate the arrival of a paramour.
The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.
Artist: Maxfield Parrish
To the photographer, this may not be the goal,
but to the painter,
Artist: Leonid Afremov
nothing is noble without it.
Artist: Leonid Afremov
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