Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first. Richard Schmid More Quotes by Richard Schmid More Quotes From Richard Schmid In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do. Richard Schmid experience self art Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children, the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have. May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist. Richard Schmid gratitude spiritual art Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished. Richard Schmid assuming talent use As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes. Richard Schmid vision spiritual forever It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it. Richard Schmid collaboration rap two 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 conflict mind looks Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great. Richard Schmid special secret wish Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things. Richard Schmid inspiration-to-others inspiration art All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult. Richard Schmid wisdom-experience children art When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart. Richard Schmid voice song art What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone. Richard Schmid skills giving ideas I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts. Richard Schmid laughing believe art My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses . Richard Schmid sublime reason art An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power. Richard Schmid incomplete power If we only thought of our feet as we walk, we'd miss everything else. Richard Schmid walks missing feet The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights. Richard Schmid eye views sight There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am. Richard Schmid painting risk mind The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better. Richard Schmid finishing done wish I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again. Richard Schmid starting-over mean thinking Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. Richard Schmid exotic simple way
