Millard Sheets quotes

“Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic insight and a deep reverence for the love of life.”
-- Millard Sheets

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“Your painting is a measure of your mind.”
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“Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.”
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“Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.”
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“Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.”
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“Is your work an interpretation of your understanding of reality, or is it simply a picture of your feelings?”
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“Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to which the artist has drunk from the well of life may not guarantee success, it must surely improve the quality of his/her work.”
-- Millard Sheets

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“How vast a memory has Love!”

“The sadest part of love life is when you cannot live with and without the one you love”

“Yes, I am very lucky, but I have a little theory about this. I have noticed through experience and observation that providence, nature, God, or what I would call the power of creation seems to favor human beings who accept and love life unconditionally, and I am certainly one who does with all my heart.”

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“It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.”

“I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank”

“Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.”

“As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press

“It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.”

“A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

“The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.”