Artistic Rendering Quotes

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.

One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

Draw what you see.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

I think anytime you see something that's been brought to life by an artist's hands, it just has a different kind of quality.

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

This making studies and then taking them home to use them is only half right. You get composition, but you lose freshness; you miss the subtle and, to the artist, the finer characteristics of the scene itself.