Asher Brown Durand quotes
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“The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.”
-- Asher Brown DurandSource : Linda S. Ferber, Asher Brown Durand (2007). “Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape”, D Giles Ltd
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“All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.”
-- Asher Brown DurandSource : Linda S. Ferber, Asher Brown Durand (2007). “Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape”, D Giles Ltd
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“I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.”
-- Asher Brown DurandSource : Linda S. Ferber, Asher Brown Durand (2007). “Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape”, D Giles Ltd
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“Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.”
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“Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.”
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“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”
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“My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.”
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Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.24, Univ of California Press
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