Mordicai Gerstein quotes

Mordicai Gerstein quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.”
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Color Quotes #Looks Quotes #Texture Quotes
“I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.”
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Morning Quotes #Miracle Quotes #Sunrise Quotes
“Every book is a unique experience.”
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Book Quotes #Unique Quotes #Unique Experiences Quotes
“You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.”
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Book Quotes #Different Quotes #World Quotes
“I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.”
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Thinking Quotes #Gadgets Quotes #Computer Quotes
“We are creatures like everything else in our world.”
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Our World Quotes #World Quotes #Creatures Quotes
“I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the world, being in the woods and taking things in. We're seeing the world as if for the first time. That's just fascinating.”
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#First Impression Quotes #Monsters Quotes #World Quotes
“People have their own ideas how about they should appear.”
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Should Quotes
“It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.”
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Painting Quotes
“I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there.”
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Thinking Quotes #Experts Quotes #Painting Quotes
“If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fix it, change it, whatever it is, to something that I'm comfortable with, that doesn't make me itch when I look at it.”
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Looks Quotes #Littles Quotes #Painting Quotes
“I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.”
-- Mordicai Gerstein

#Achieve Quotes #Greater Quotes

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