Heritage Waterway Studios
Bringing ART To LIFE
POTABLE QUOTABLES
" Painting the Art
You Want to Paint,
Means Finding
Nourishment,
Within the Art "
R G Becker
" Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live, and it is in your power. "
Marcus Aurelius.
“ The painter is the eye of the people. He sees things which they have no time to look for, or looking, have not learned to See. ”
DANIEL BURLEIGH PARKHURST 1897
“ Landscape painting is the thoughtful and passionate representation of the physical conditions appointed for human existence. It imitates the aspects, and records the phenomena, of the visible things which are dangerous or beneficial to men; and displays the human methods of dealing with these, and of enjoying them or suffering from them, which are either exemplary or deserving of sympathetic contemplation. “
JOHN RUSKIN 1871
“ A picture is a visible idea expressed in terms of color, form, and line. It is the product of perception plus feeling, plus intent, plus knowledge, plus temperament, plus pigment. And as all these are differently proportioned in all persons, it is only a matter of being natural on the part of the painter that his picture should be original. “
DANIEL BURLEIGH PARKHURST 1897
“ No one can ever design till he has learned the language of Art by making many finished copies both of Nature, Art, and of whatever comes in his way, from earliest childhood. The difference between a bad artist and a good is, that the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one does copy a great deal. “
Blake
" Landscape is a big thing, and should be viewed from a distance in order to grasp the scheme of hill and stream. The figures of men and women are small matters, and may be spread out on the hand or on a table for examination, when they will be taken in at a glance.
Those who study flower-painting take a single stalk and put it into a deep hole, and then examine it from above, thus seeing it from all points of view. Those who study bamboo-painting take a stalk of bamboo, and on a moonlight night project its shadow on to a piece of white silk on a wall; the true form of the bamboo is thus brought out.
It is the same with landscape painting. The artist must place himself in communion with his hills and streams, and the secret of the scenery will be solved....
Hills without clouds look bare; without water they are wanting in fascination; without paths they are wanting in life; without trees they are dead; without depth-distance they are shallow; without level-distance they are near; and without height-distance they are low. "
Kuo Hsi (Chinese, eleventh century A.D.).