Christopher Willard famous quotes

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.
-- Christopher Willard

#Art #People #Copying

Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.
-- Christopher Willard

#Children #Painting #Miserable

What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?
-- Christopher Willard

#Thinking #Make You Think #Brain

One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.
-- Christopher Willard

#Finishing #Cezanne #Painting

Without intent all painting is meaningless.
-- Christopher Willard

#Purpose #Painting #Meaningless

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.