Rex Brandt quotes
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“Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.”
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“After a thousand watercolors you will find you have fallen in love with paper and paint.”
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“We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.”
-- Rex BrandtSource : Rex Brandt (1984). “Seeing with a painter's eye”
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“In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.”
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“Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.”
-- Rex BrandtSource : Rex Brandt (1984). “Seeing with a painter's eye”
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“All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.”
-- Rex BrandtSource : Rex Brandt (1977). “Watercolor techniques and methods: the twenty basic lessons adapted from The winning ways of watercolor for easy student and studio use”
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“The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.”
-- Rex BrandtSource : Rex Brandt (1984). “Seeing with a painter's eye”
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“The painting is usually finished before you are.”
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“Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.”
-- Rex Brandt
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