Mary Beth McKenzie quotes
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“Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.”
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“Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.”
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“I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.”
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“Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.”
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“Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.”
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“Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.”
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“You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.”
-- Mary Beth McKenzieSource : Mary Beth Mckenzie (1987). “Painterly Approach”, Watson-Guptill
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“A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.”
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“I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.”
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“Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.”
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“Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.”
-- Mary Beth McKenzie
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